Thank you Calum and Geek-9pm. It is embarrassing but I have to ask! I have forgotten how to recognize a RE-writable DVD form a NON RE-writable one. Can you please tell me?

Regards,Personally, I recommend you NOT use the RW type media.
CD-RW
DVD-RW
The failure rate is very high for bookable media. Just one bad bit can stop it from working right. But with music and video it does not matter as much. And the RW media is more expensive.Quote from: Geek-9pm on October 16, 2015, 10:17:20 AM

Personally, I recommend you NOT use the RW type media.
CD-RW
DVD-RW
The failure rate is very high for bookable media. Just one bad bit can stop it from working right. But with music and video it does not matter as much. And the RW media is more expensive.

Thank you Calum and Geek-9pm. It is embarrassing but I have to ask! I have forgotten how to recognize a RE-writable DVD form a NON RE-writable one. Can you please tell me?

Regards,

Usually the disk will have DVD-R/DVD+R (writable) or DVD-RW/DVD+RW (rewritable) printed on it. So, basically just look for RW instead of R as this will indicate a rewritable disk.

Geek's comment is valid if you were going to use the disk for anything important, for your intended usage I don't see a problem with using RW media. By their nature, they're reusable, so although they're more expensive it's not like you can't use them again in the future.

Thank you. If I create a boot-able USB stick using rufus:
(1) Can I delete a Distro from the USB stick after checking the Distro, and download another distro to the stick, or do I first delete, and then format the stick before downloading the next Distro?
(2) Can a boot-able stick hold more than one distro at a time?
(3) At the end of this venture, can I use this same stick as a normal USB stick for saving media etc?

Kind regards,

1. The easiest way would be to use Rufus to "load" the next distro onto the stick, Rufus will format the drive automatically each time by default. So no special steps need to be taken, just open Rufus, select the next distro's ISO file and ensure the target is set to your USB drive, it'll ask you if you're sure to format the drive, hit yes and it'll go ahead.
2. You could create a multi-distro USB stick, but that's not as simple a process and it's not one I've done before. I'd recommend just sticking to one at a time, it makes everything simpler.
3. You can indeed, just format the drive once you're done and it'll be back to normal formatting it afterwards isn't absolutely necessary but again it just makes things easier as you're guaranteed to have removed everything on there before you start using it again.

Holy cow! In the days you have been going back and forth asking questions about what disks to use and such, you could have easily tried a half dozen different distros already.

Thank you for all the support. I am confident of doing this now.

Kind regards,

Possibly, but understand that this can be daunting to someone who's never done this before. I know I was just the same a few years back and asked a similar set of questions myself. ...