Lobster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Know Mystery,
:)
>Can i ask you a silly question - what do you do with
>your ISOs? Does everyone here know what one is?
What happens is you download a Linux distro as an ISO
you then check that it has downloaded OK (using the checksum
- which is normally in the same place)
then you use a CD burner and create a CD
- so if you have a CD burner you can download
and create Knoppix or Fedora or whatever . . .
Thanks for the explanation. The computer with the CD burner is the one I still cannot get on the net...but I WILL get it on the net one day... The new computer at work as a CD/DVD burner on board.
> I always had problems until using the prog on our freeware > wikibook page.
> >Remember a couple of weeks back when you and Francis
> > were talking about Win 3.11? Wasn't it Alms that i got
> >working on 3.11? I still like the 3.11 computer, and
> >some of the programs i use here on Win 98 were written
> >for 3.11. The only limitation I have found is the long
> >file names.
> Yes that is right - old but if you put 3.11 on a modern machine - woosh . . .
> the names on Windows 3.11 were fine but had to be up 8 characters followed by 3
>
> so
> text.doc - for example
As I recall some form of NT server still has that folder name length limitation in effect?
>>
>> found what is my next ISO burn
>> this . . .
>>
>> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>>
>> (Contains ways of checking for viruses from DOS
>> incidentally - think I saw that)
>
>Thanks for pointing this out... I am still struggling
>to get that one computer repaired, and this one has
>something going on in DOS before the firewall loads. I
>was given a bootable CD to use to run a McAfee checker
>in DOS, but this computer is so old you cannot set the
>bios to boot from CD!! Is there any way around that, i
>wonder?
> There is a way around that - you can boot from a floppy that puts the CD driver into a ram disk
> that makes the CD recognizable . . .
Oh, this is great to know! Will search around to find out how.
>Something is going on - the aol browser window for any
>site i try comes up blank with an * in the top left
>corner - only it looks more like a little bug than an
>asterisk.
>
>FireFox works fine, IE works fine, but not aol
>suddenly.
aol like people to use their own highly configured browser (I think they are using a modified IE at the
moment)
If browsing with that then their tech support should help you . . . .
(you are paying for it . . .)
It is probably one of the ascci or ansi escape codes
All fixed. I downloaded their latest updates overnight, and voila! I kept ignoring their autodownload - well, i kept escaping out of it for a couple of months until just now. :)
>> When you download a ISO a small piece of text is
>> usually included in the
>> same directory this is the ISO checksum - if you
>> check your download image
>> against it you will be certain it has copied OK
>> and you can then burn it
>
>This is a good idea.
as I say never had a problem
- just manged to get vector Linux working on the hard disk
- decided to play the enclosed tux game and crashed the system
- Linux does not crash? - maybe in penguin land but in the real?
Linux crashed? Oh my. Lions and tigers and penguins, oh my.
- gave up for now - but nothing can keep me away from Tux - so cute
- it was a slackware distro and this is meant to be very 'universal'
- the word 'slack ' incidently is from the discordian cult religion
(The Church of the SubGenius)
Thanks for the helpfulness, as always. Happy Wednesday everyone.
Dare i check to see how the Red Sox and Yankees made out last night?
love and peace,
joyce
Lobster
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