Well, thanks for all the replies, guys. And all the advice. Here's the latest.
I had downloaded the Suse 9.1 ISO and, using Roxio, burned it right to a CD-R. This is the disk that was giving me grief a couple of nights ago. Tried several times with this older laptop I have and it just would not boot to the CD-ROM. I have CD's I've made from other ISO's, such as W2k Pro, W2K Pro Adv. Server, WXP Pro, and 2003 Server. All of these CD's would boot up and beging their install routine. Okay, must be a bad burn...no prob, only a few pennies lost. I'll just add this one to my stack of coasters.
Since I had determined to re-burn the CD, I figured I would go ahead and download the ISO again, just to make sure it wasn't damaged. 700 Mb is a pretty good sized download.
While at the download site, I saw they had an MD5 checker for verifying the MD5 checksum. Okay, let's try this. Downloaded their little windows applet and ran my ISO download through it. Compared the check sum with what the site said it should be and it matched. Yes, folks, we have a winner! Hold of on adding to that coaster stack.
Brought the CD I burned the other night into work today and tried it in a computer I have here...another laptop. TA-DAHHH!!!!! Just like Stijn said, pop in the CD...turn the computer on...next, next, next....it's 40% installed as I'm typing right now. Looking at the screen shots it displays during the install process, it looks like a pretty straight-forward system. Looking forward to taking it for a test drive.
Thanks again for all the advice and help. As has been said before by many people, on many occasions, PELICANS ROCK!!!
dd74, after I get it installed, I'll let you know whether or not you wasted your $$$.
Moderators, please move this thread over to OT where it belongs?
Randy