Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-30 Thread Chris Fox
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:32 pm, Jay R. Camp wrote: The 1st CD is always bootable. Just set your BIOS to look at your CD-ROM first and off you go. It'll pull the installer, some packages, etc. off of there. On a related note, has anyone gotten FTP-install to work? I do it all the time

Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 30 March 2003 23:28, Chris Fox wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:32 pm, Jay R. Camp wrote: The 1st CD is always bootable. Just set your BIOS to look at your CD-ROM first and off you go. It'll pull the installer, some packages, etc. off of there. On a related note, has anyone

Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-26 Thread et
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:51 pm, Joeb wrote: Eric, it is NOT the ISO image that allows booting, it is that included in the ISO is a boot from floppy device. ISO just stands for the International Standards Organization and 9660 is implied as the particular standard, and has NOTHING to do with

[newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread eric huff
I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a way to have a boot cd that would then use info

Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread Jay R. Camp
] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't

Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread Joeb
Eric, While the ISO images do allow you to boot from the CD (assuming your computer allows it), the purpose of the ISO images is to keep from having to download all the individual files to some directory somewhere and then installing across a network or worse yet, from installing from the

Re: [newbie] Why ISO? was: 9.1 final has been released

2003-03-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:18, eric huff wrote: I am very new to linux, and am trying to figure out why ISO images are needed. I searched around, but too many hits... Is the purpose of using an ISO image simply that you can boot from the CD and have it reformat the drive? Shouldn't there be a