Your SimplyMEPIS CD is bootable. It is not like most installation CDs. When you start your system from the CD, the system starts as if SimplyMEPIS were already installed.
At the login screen, the 'demo' user password is 'demo' and the 'root' user password is 'root' When you are ready to install, click on the 'INSTALL ME' icon on the desktop.
If your CD will not boot, check the following:
If the CD does not spinup (it makes no sound and the light does not come on), then your system does not try to boot from CD.
In this case, you will have to tell the computer how to boot from CD. This varies from computer to computer but your computer's initial boot screen should contain a message that tells you how to do this.
Forcing Boot from CD
To force your system to boot from CD, you may be required to press a special key, like F1 or F12 and then you will be presented with a list of boot options. Or you may be expected to press the right or left arrow key to select from icons that represent the options. Or you may have to press F1 or F2 or Del to enter your BIOS setup to change your boot options to enable an automatic boot from CD.
In some rare instances, you may be unable to tell the computer how to boot the CD. In this case, the system will ignore the CD or it will freeze before the Boot Screen appears.
If you have a computer with a floppy drive, read "Boot Floppies."
If you have a computer with a floppy drive, you can create a set of Boot Floppies and use them to boot the CD. The floppies can be made from Windows or Linux. The floppy images are on the SimplyMEPIS CD in the /floppies directory. You will need 3 floppy disks. In Windows, go to the /floppies folder on the CD and run mkflop.bat then insert the floppies when prompted. In Linux, as root, run mkflop.sh
To boot from floppy, insert both the Boot Floppy #1 and the CD, then reboot your system. From the floppy's menu, select to boot from CD for the version of MEPIS you are booting, and follow the instructions.
If you have an older copy of SImplyMEPIS that does not include the /floppies directory, you can download the files in this zip: floppies.zip Then unzip the zip and follow the instructions in README.txt