Well, I think this is the real thing... I grabbed the first ISO tonight.. (via adsl) and just finished burning it...
I haven't installed it yet, but I booted one system with the CD. to see what the install screens had to say.. The date on the install screen was Sept 22. (if I remember correctly) and it made no reference to beta or release candidate... (I have a beta 4 machine here that mentions beta in the install screen.. but I don't know if the RC1,RC2,RC3 disks did the same.) This new one just says Mandrake 9.1 inst 1. So it seems that its the real thing... I'll grab the other CD's tonight (free bandwidth at night.) Then I will try and install the lot.... If it really is the real thing, I think I know why they do it. (I mean call it RC3 instead of the real thing.) I imagine they would do it in the hope that people don't catch on and the mirrors all get a copy of everything without all the bandwidth chewing of 10,000 users downloading at the same time. Then when its all syncronised, they can simply rename the files and its all go... I am hoping that I can the other 2 CD's before it goes mainstream. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Damian G Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2002 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise) > Ok, this seems good news. But the thing is this. I have looked at the man > page already, but I don't understand much of it :-( There are some *.img > files in the "images" directory, but I presume these are for floppies. Then > there are some files in "isolinux", but how and what I would not know. > The man page presumes that a person using mkisofs actually understands the > components of build-up of a CD; I don't ;-) i finally found some free time to look for it myself, but i can't find it :o( looks like it's a good idea to re-read TFM after an upgrade... > I was actually hoping that someone with experience or knowledge would > explain what to do, which file to use, and what mkisofs command to use ;-) oooooh, no. sorry, not me. :o) > I suppose this is one of those things that once you have done one, you > never forget, but unfortunately I have never come remotely close to this > :-) > most likely. anyway, I'm positive there must be a way to copy boot sectors from one ISO to another. i'll dig into it a bit further today. Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems?
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