ISO burning on a Mac...for an x86 distro

[MobileDev]

Hello everyone, I just downloaded the ISO images for GpartED and Damn Small Linux (both the latest versions). Now here's my dilemma, my PC (which runs Gates CrapwareXP aka Windows) doesn't have a CD burner, but my iMac Pro does. I want to put Linux on my PC. Do I have to install a CD burner in my PC, or will burning the ISO images on my iMac still give me a functioning Linux distro and the greatest partition editior on the planet? Any help you guys can provide me would be much appreciated.

[twodayslate]

If you burn the image on your mac it should work for your PC.

[Cabhan]

Burning on the Mac will work. You just need to be sure to burn the ISO as an ISO image, and not create a data CD (the difference is that the former will "unpack" the ISO and create a full CD, while the latter will make a CD with one file: the ISO).

You can use Disk Utility to burn the ISO as an ISO.

[MobileDev]

Thanks guys, it worked! I now have Knoppix 4 and GPartED for x86 machines! Now I want to to take it to the next level by turning my 40GB Seagate USB hard drive into a portable Linux system. I have already checked to see if my computer can boot from a USB device (it can) and I formatted my drive into 5 partitions. It now has 3 FAT16 partitions (all max size), an FAT32 partition and the rest is a Linux swap partition. All partitions are 'Primary', whatever that means. Here's what I want to do:

1. Put Knoppix on the first partition to make the drive bootable

2. Turn the second one into a persistant home directory to be used by both the CD and the installation on the drive

3. Leave the rest of the drive free for whatever and make it accessable to Windows and Linux

4. Is the swap file needed? If not, I can delete the partition.

I know how to make a presistant home directory from within Knoppix. How do I put a copy of Knoppix on the drive and make it bootable?