>From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:20 PM >Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 believed to be out (in mild disguise) >
>On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:19 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: >> Yeah, I have just downloaded the 2/3 isos, but I have bad news for those >> using an old CD writer like me (HP 8100i): The isos are too big for the >> writers. I have used 700MB CD's, but have never been able to burn over the >> 690MB's. The first 2 images contain data that is around the 693 and 699 >> MB's. >> >> I have mounted the 2 images, and see quite a few things I would never use. >> I only need to free up a few MB's per CD. >> >> How could I go about properly deleting these to bring down the ISO-sizes to >> burnable sizes? Mount the ISO, copy the files to a temp directory, delete >> the couple of files, then remake an ISO. But, how would I successfully go >> about making a bootable CD? >> >> Does anyone have any experience with re-creating Distro-CD's? >> >> I'm sure I won't be the only one with this problem, so any knowledgeable >> advice would be great :-) >> >> Greetings >> Ralph >I can not access any servers in England and all the other mirrors are still >showing the 9/18 rc3 versions on them so it looks like someone is spoofing or >English mirrors have an exclusive the URL given earlier is not accessable any >more, at least by my machine. We will have to wait another day or two? >-- >Dennis M. linux user #180842 > I was able to download the three isos in about 3 hours. I burned them all and installed. I am running Mandrake 9.0 on my box (along with windows). It didn't say anything about rc3 or beta. It looks really good. Unfortunately I am still quite a newbie and don't know everything that I can do with it! Doh!! I do like it, though! Travis Crook Visions Beyond
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