distros for newbies? was Re: [brlug-general] Proposed distrib utions to donate

[Larry Braud]

Doug
Where are you located? I'm near the Mall of Louisiana, on Gail Drive, about
1/2 mile North of I10.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Riddle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <General@brlug.net>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 7:06 AM
> I've never had an install fail with LibraNet.  Any chance your image
> is bad?  I can run my CDs over and let you try them.  Nothing like
> tested good CDs to remove a posibility.
>
> The boot disk issue is probably true of a number of distributions.  I
> remember having that problem with RedHat 7.0 now that I think about
> it.  It wasn't on my system.  I was installing for a friend and had
> to make the disks on a Windows 3.11 PC.  It was a bit of a pain.  I
> hate to include floppies with our CDs.  You can get a virus onto
> floppies.  I guess we could include a step-by-step set of
> instructions, or a map to cccc.
>
> Doug