Any easy way to open dvd: /home/dell/Downloads/pclinuxos-openbox-2011.08.iso

[newbit]

Hello Everybody,
I need help'n'guidance.
I searched many a distro. Liked Mageia, Pinguy, UE, loved full monty's organized style, but openbox may be better for my laptop w/2GB & 80GB HD. Purchased used w/Mint 9 on it. It has passwords for sudo and admin and refuses to chge timezones, very stubborn and I am very dumb w/Linux at this point.
 I'd like to completely start from scratch, partition my drive for say 4 distros, download ywriter5 and be able to actually open it, and start writing already and for fun, learn and try out a couple of distros while keeping openbox as the heart of my laptop. Now my Terminal seems terminally stubborn. How do I do this and is there a point and click way of running prgms like ywriter5? If this distro uses norton commander I may actually be able to get going quicker. I used dos and windows back when norton was king. Any and all help will be cherished and used.
Thanks in advance. I am finding that linux is where all the best people have been hiding. Helpful, wonderful, awesome, smart, and cool. I am loving it!

[T6]

hello and welcome to the forum!

when you are a beginner as you say you are, the best approach is to use only one distro at the time

the reason is that less distros you have on the laptop, more you can focus on one distro

also you can focus on one desktop environment at the time

most of us, when we want to try a new distro(something really uncommon after using pclinux    ) only try a livecd or use virtualbox to try the distro installed on a virtual machine

norton commander is a app sold by norton afik and iirc is a defunct app, completely abandoned, not existent anymore and it is only for windows

there is equivalents on linux but i abandoned along time ago this console tools, all i use is gui tools like pcman file manager or dolphin, handle big amounts of files and folders feels easy for me on a gui than in a cli

[The Chief]

IIRC, we have Midnight Commander in the repos, and it is, supposedly, a near clone of Norton Commander.