ISO burn questions.

Hi,

I used to use RH Linux years ago and am now in the process of trying to install RHL desktop onto my old vista laptop. Right now I have no machines with Linux on it so bear that in mind here.

Also note that I am burning the files on my other machine which has Windows 7 on it. I followed the instructions on burning the ISO to a DVD. No problem there. My laptop BIOS is set to first boot off of the DVD drive. But when I have the disk in the DVD drive it reads the disk for a few seconds and then goes right into windows.

Years ago I had this same issue. I think the problem was that just having the ISO burned to the disk was not sufficient. I think I had to extract the files, burn them to the DVD and then the machine could boot up and install the software. I think this is the problem here. I am not seeing any option under Windows 7 to extract those files as I think I need.

Question 1: Am I on the right track with my thinking?
Question 2: If I need to extract the files, how on earth do I do it in Windows 7?