dkphoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Several times during my numerous attemtps at getting the installation of > Linux correct (it looks like this, the 8th time, may be the charm), I > have seen this line pop up on the screen: > > ISO9660Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 > > What is MicroSloth doing in my supposedly nice clean Linux box??? <grin>
The CD you are using was mastered using Joliet extenstions to the ISO 9660 standard. Joliet is a filesystem developed at Microsoft to allow for long file names on a CD under Windows. Of course, the GNU world had Rock Ridge long before that, but the Linux kernel understands both, and to make it easier to get files from a CD in a Windows machine (say, when your GNU/Linux box doesn't have a CD-ROM drive), Joliet is in more wide spread use nowadays. > Oh, and this one concerns me too: > > Unable to load NLS charset iso 8859-1(nls_iso8859_1) > > Can anyone tell me what that is all about and whether or not I should be > concerned? Well, ISO 8859-1 (AKA Latin-1) is the "normal" character set, at least for Americans. It usually isn't a problem when you get a warning like this, as often if 8859-1 fails, the default encoding will be used, which usually happens to be a lot like 8859-1. Of course, someone will correct me if I am wrong here (being an American with little knowledge of such things, I am not well versed in the ways of i18n and l10n). -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jakob.kaivo.net/