Please help... Help Needed... plEasE!

[fuckoffmicrosoft]

i would use nero to burn em dude

[Calum]

answer: no, do not just burn the iso onto a CD. some people do that and then... they have a big iso file on a CD! the iso file contains the data (filesystem and all) to go on the CD, so you need to make sure that your CD burning program knows to transfer the contents of the iso onto the CD, and not just the file itself.

re downloading vs buying, there are quite a few companies that will download a distro and burn it for you for a few bucks/pounds/euros/whatever. You just order online or mail order. search google to find one in your country. i recommend mandrake or red hat to begin with, or maybe SuSE or something, i haven't tried many of the other user friendly distros, mandrake was good enough for me so i stuck with it!

[flap]

Anyone searching for cheap Linux retailers in any country, just go to http://www.linux.org/vendors/retailers.html

[XxD]

Hey! I just woke up and Mandrake is at 15% =D

[XxD]

Ok, i got nero.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by XxD:
btw.. I can goto my dad's office... (T1) and maybe get it there... thats still a good hour or 2 heh. Anyways, Thanks you guys! This is now one of my fav websites =D

it takes me about 3:30 for 3 ISOs on cable. So T1 would take probly an hour for all 3 CDs.

[XxD]

Okay, i can maybe go to his office Tomorrow.

Should I get all 3 CDS? And Since i have NO knowledge of linux code.... how hard is it to set up? Will it walk me through?

[Pantso]

quote:Originally posted by XxD:
Okay, i can maybe go to his office Tomorrow.

Should I get all 3 CDS? And Since i have NO knowledge of linux code.... how hard is it to set up? Will it walk me through?

Yes you should get all 3 CDs. And don't worry about installation. Mandrake, SuSE and RedHat installations are easier than Windows  

[pkd_lives]

You should burn the CDs as IMAGES. Nero may not recognise the image (because it wants images in Neros image format I think that's .nrg). Don't worry about this it will still work. Just make sure you burn an image not an ISO.

[XxD]

Odd.. i just finished installing NERO... and when I open it, it says DEMO HAS EXPIRED! PLZ PAY US SOME CA$H or something/... but I JUST downloaded it..? wtf?

[XxD]

heh, nvm, now im running the full version >  I d/led a key generator of kazaa

[Calum]

well whoopdeedoo for you.

you know once you get linux working you can use cdrecord and xcdroast which do the same job for FREE under a STABLE operating system.

a novelty, eh?

hope you don't like using duped serial numbers too much, you will be disappointed when you can get shedloads of fully featured stuff for free in linux...

[XxD]

hey there, im at my dads office now!

i started the downloads at 8 oclock today ( im downloading all 3 ISO's, the 700 MB one, the 680 one, and the 490 one) And Im kinda dissapointed... the 700 MB one is at 60% ( its 12 right now) and the 690 is at like 10% and the 480 is at like.... 4%..... Anyways, I wouldn't worry, because my dad's T1 is shared, he has an office right next to him that shares his bandwidth =\ BUT.. once the 700 mb one is down, the 690 one will go much faster....

BTW, LinuxISo.org... their mirrors are sucky.. or is it just my over loaded bandwidth =\

the best ive got so far is the DL with my700 mb ISO.. its going at like 31 kpbs...

now. when i leave my dads office DISK1 will probably be done. Will I be able to install disk 1, the installation disk. THen comeback tomorrow ( the downloads will be done) with the EXTRAS And internationalization disks? OR do they need to be installed all at once?

i really  want the 700 mB worth of extras hehe

[voidmain]

Right after the RedHat 8.0 ISOs came out linuxiso seemed to point directly to RedHat server and not the mirrors which meant "good luck". I found a good mirror and was able to download them in about 4 hours. It was one of the kernel.org mirrors. If I remember right it was ftp.pt.kernel.org.

[XxD]

yeah, the mirrors it has for mandrake... either really suck, or someone's downloaded hella porn or something at Stylelogic... (people next-door)

i mean, 1 of the files is going at 40 kpbs ( mind u im d/ling all 3 files from the same mirror)
the 2nd and 3rd ones are both going at like 5 kpbs..... slow, but steady. I mean, its OK, because i think when #1 is done d/ling, 2 and 3 will speed up, and anyways, ive d/led 80 MB just letting them sit there at like 4 kpbs..