All the bugs found in the beta versions have been fixed.
Download from www.doubleburgerbar.com/watchdog/
Watchdog is a live cd and includes a fully working zoneminder (1.22.3).
Put the cd in, boot the pc, and a few minutes later you should have a working zm system with one camera.
During bootup you will see a message telling you that pup_216.sfs is being read, this can take quite a while, basically a 215 mb file has to be read from the cd and copied to memory, please be patient during this process.
The system should boot you straight into x-windows with mozilla showing the zoneminder console.
On some systems you might have to start zm from the console.
If you dont get an x window, simply type "xorgwizard" (without the quotes then press enter) and watchdog will attempt to build a suitable configuration file for your display.
If youre not happy with the current display clcik on the Menu button, select Sutdown/exit to prompt, and follow the instructions above.
If your display is garbled, press the CTRL ALT and BACKSPACE keys together and the x server will be killed, then follow the instructions above.
Have fun