How do I make a Linux Boot Disk?

I recently put the ISO of a FreeBSD bootdisk onto a CD... Only one problem, though... Windows boots up when i have FreeBSD in the CD drive. What did I do wrong?

1.) Make sure you burned it as an ISO file/disc image, not just the data.

2.) If that's all confirmed, go into your BIOS and make sure that CD-ROM is higher on the boot priority than HDD.

3.) If you didn't know this already, are you sure you want to install FreeBSD? You know, of course, that it will delete Windows and all of your data, right...?

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Yeah, I knew it, but kinda forgot after years of gaming. But seeing as my PC is custom and has a burnt copy of XP, getting into the BIOS is a real bitch (F5 doesn't work, and yes, i turned on F-lock).

Since when did F5 get the BIOS anyway?  It's usually F1 or F2 at startup to get into the BIOS.  Also which version of windows you have has no effect on your ability to get to your BIOS settings at bootup, as you access it BEFORE you load your OS.

On computers I used, the BIOS accses code was F5, but I'll try it, and proast whether it works or not.

Keys to use to get into BIOS:
F1, F2, F10, F12, DEL.
I've come across such combo as Ctrl+Alt+Enter (it was old dell machine).

YMMV.

F5 & F8 are used in windows startup mostly.

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>>1
Delete usually gets into bios on modern motherboards., check that boot order.

Or you could bang on the keyboard like a monkey in hopes of fixing it

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>>Or you could bang your mom like a monkey in hopes of fixing it.
fixed

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A lot of older computers don't support booting from CDs. Don't ask me why. I remember back in the day when I was installing Red Hat 9 on this computer i got at a yardsale for $10 (bored) it wouldn't boot the CD. In the red hat 9 CD was some floppy disk image (.img) that could be used to vicariously boot the CD.

Check if freebsd has something like that somewhere, if not, sooks for you.