Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:29:21 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Linux on Lib70
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:04:37 -0500 (EST) >From: Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >If you have access to a CD burner, I'd suggest http://www.linuxiso.org/ > > > > This site is talking about burning the ISO image to a CD that can be >made bootable. I don't know about the newer Libs, but I'm pretty sure >these L50s and L70s won't boot from a CD-ROM drive. > >Don't know about other distributions, but I installed RedHat 7.1 onto a >Lib 70 from CD, starting from a Windows DOS prompt. Don't recollect the >details offhand - but I think one can just run a batch file from the >dosutils folder of the CD. Perhaps Mandrake has such a folder also? Now I forget whether or not an ISO image is one big file or not. It is isn't it? And CD burning software extracts the componets and burns them to a CD... right? >From what Neil and people have been saying, I take it that there's some advantage to booting from the Mandrake installation CD over just having the installation files on the HDD, and running the installation from there. Wonder what that may be. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
