Hello everyone

[AnarchyUK]

Hi there all. I'm new to these forums. I have a quick question. I'm downloading Debian 2.2 v5 from the FTP site. How do I turn those files into a bootable CD? Also I previously had Red Hat 7.0 on my 2nd PC and it had problems loading the drivers for a Netgear FA - 311 Rev B. I found the source code for the drivers but was not sure about how to compile them and use them within Linux. Will I have the same problems with Debian. Thanks mucho in advance

[voidmain]

I *assume* you are downloading the "*.iso" CD images?  If so, and you are writing your CDs in another version of linux use either "cdrecord" on the command line, or use a graphical app like "xcdroast".  If you are on windows (or any other OS) and have CD burning software it should have the capability to write CDs of type "*.iso".  The *.iso's are bootable CD images.  Although not impossible to create bootable CDs by recreating the CD from the individual files I would not suggest it unless you are an expert.  If you really want to do it this hard way there is a HOWTO on how to do it. (search for "creating bootable CDs in Linux") on Google.

Otherwise you *can* just download the floppy boot disk images and do an FTP/network install directly (if you have high speed network).  Also I believe there is good info on http://www.linuxiso.org/

[ January 25, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]