-Thanks Chris. I just burned it as an ISO to a CD-R. Now I am ready to boot the thing. If you don't here from me for a few days, you know I have blown my PC up!
Andy K3UK -- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Danis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/20/07, Andrew O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am interested in trying PSKMAIL but don't want to screw up my PCs > > that are using Windows XP. I have an old 500 Hz CPU PC sitting around > > doing nothing. What would I need to do to turn this totally in to a > > linux computer running PSKMAIL ? > > Andy, > > There is a PSKMail live-CD image available: > > http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/live_distro > > If you burn the image to a CD-R (as an ISO image), you'll have a > bootable CD that will run Linux and PSKMail directly from the CD, > without touching anything on your computer's hard drive. Once you're > done, you can reboot, eject the disc, and everything on your computer > is still exactly as it was before. I believe that the disc also has > some way to easily install to a hard disk should you choose to do so, > but I'm not sure. As long as the PC can boot from CD-ROM and has >= > 256MB of RAM, you should be fine. > > I've never actually tried any of this myself, so if you run into > troubles, the PSKMail mailing list is definitely where to go: > http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/Mailing+list > > best & 73, > -chris N2YYZ >
