Re Windows and ISO's. 'Doze "don't do ISO's." IOW you can't use a
native Windows MS product to burn ISO's to CD. There is a free program
out there, can't remember the name, that you can use. Google is your
friend. Advise using the businesscard ISO as I had to do a 'Doze
download and burn to get my box back up and running and ran onto all the
probs of small errors in large ISO download. 'Course I was downloading
and installing Wheezy so that might have been the problem. But it's
doable. Good luck.
AND, I agree with the statement of attitude adjustment when asking for
help. 'nuff said, I hope.
Whit
On 04/09/2011 07:44 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 00:36 Sat 09 Apr, Larry Wazny (the-...@rogers.com) wrote:
I have been trying for the last hour to download a copy. I have not
used Linus for years, which was Redhat. I get the parent directory
which allows me to do nothing. I have tried http and torrent and have
never experienced such difficulty. No wonder windows is the most
popular as I can download any software
I need by one click.the-waz@rogers,com
If you're going to use Linus, you might want to check with Tove first
for clearance.
If it's Linux you're after, you might want to tell us, say, what
hardware you've got, and what URLs you're attempting to use for
downloading the installer / image.
How hard is it to figure this out?
Lessee:
Debian -> http://www.debian.org/
Top of the page: "Getting Debian" -> http://www.debian.org/distrib/
First major heading: "Download a small installation image" ->
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
This page is possibly a little confusing as you need to know your
system's CPU architecture. For any recent PC hardware, that's
"amd64" ->
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso
Download that ISO, and burn it with any *IMAGE* (not file) burning
software. (I don't use Windows so I'm not familiar with what works there,
but IIRC "Nero" used to work, though I don't know if the native Windows
software does off the top. For Mac, the CD tool does just fine.
A quick Google search turns up a helpful page from CentOS:
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/CD_burning_howto.html
Other useful links would be the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/
The Debian Documentation homepage is another good place to start looking
for help: http://www.debian.org/doc/
I'd particularly recommend the FAQ:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/
A bit of attitude adjustment might also be in order.
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