Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

[Robert G. Hays]

I think you probably made the right choice to start with.  We all hate 
admitting that *anything* is too much for us, but that is childishness 
(even on my part!) when playing with matches and a *large* open pan of 
gasoline, which is what adding Gentoo to an existing drive full of data is.

See ya'again once you have a couple of clues to keep each other company 
in your pocket!

Success!   (=Best wishes!),
rgh.
Nanayakkara, Pubudu wrote:
I give up.  I changed my mind, and I installed Ubuntu.  

It looks OK, let me play with it for few days ( or months) if this is
unstable I might come back.
Cheers,
Pubudu.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert G. Hays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 10:09 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

Pubudu, one last thought...  before you alter the partitions on your
drive to make room for the Linux, two thoughts:
1) you ned to defrag your drive, either with any built-in tools in
WhinedoZZZe, or best if you have or can afford, SpeedDisk from
Norton....
2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what
you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims',
if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my fingers
firmly crossed (hopeful/prayerful!).  Anybody know about this?
( And sorry typo in last email!)
best,
rgh.
Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
 

Robert G. Hays wrote:
   

At Bottom.....
Andreas Fredriksson wrote:
     

On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

       

Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but 
is
possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO 
file to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that 
you're not to burn the folder itself, but the contents of the 
folder. The cd will take the place of that folder :)
 
         

AFAIK this will remove the ISO header links to the bootable catalog 
(the embedded floppy boot section). All the files will probably be 
included (possibly with wrong file permissions, such as the 
executable
bit) but the CD will not boot.

Regards,
Andreas
       

CONCUR! -- this will not work.  I know someone that did it (me, long 
ago!).

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!
SUGGESTION: (Pudubu) this is like *really* not the distro to start 
with; I know a lot & it took me *forever* to do, and a 'newbie'
installing to a drive with another o/s on it will probably manage to 
destroy the other o/s .  Try Mandrake first, *then* if you really 
want to learn all the greasy, grimy, blood-&-guts learning you can go
     

 

to Gentoo.  (I am basically a newbie to Gentoo, and I already love
it.)  (Or try SuSE or FedoraCore or Xandros or Linspire or Ubunto; 
I've heard lots of good about all, but I no longer like SuSE very 
much, and I do know that Mandrake is good for newbies; the others I 
know only by hear-say.)
-------
(This advice is free, because you couldn't *possibly* afford to pay 
for its actual value unless you are Bill Gates masquerading as
'Pudubu'!)
Best!,
rgh.

     

Oh right... I forgot the bootable thing! Well, one can make a bootable
   

 

cd via Nero and select the boot image in the cd to boot from.
And yes, I would definitely not start with Gentoo as my first Linux 
distro...

Sorry for the wrong info earlier...
Regards,
Mrugesh Karnik
   


 

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