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seeking wisdom regarding an os
bha:
i have checked and rearranged the bios already. still nothing. i guess maybe i don't have the things burnt correctly but that doesn't make sense to me. i have the iso files. they are roughly over a gig and they are on three cds. i am under the impression that this is correct. maybe i should try to download them again, but i believe i have them already. so this is frustrating too. i think i'm at a loss.
flap:
Can you browse the contents of the cd in windows? If you can it's burned ok. And, if so, do you have another bootable CD (e.g. a Windows CD) you could use to verify that your system can boot ok from cds?
Calum:
hmm. as i say, i'm not the person to really ask about the actual burning of iso files. i gather that the iso is a kind of container for the data which goes on the CD, and a cd burning program will kind of open up the iso file and put its contents on the cd, although we did have a guy on a few months ago who had inadvertently put the actual iso files on cds instead, which did not work.
the only thing i can do here, until somebody comes along who burns their own isos, like voidmain, or some other person, is to say to you, have a look at the site "LinuxISO.org" and check out the instructions they have for burning isos onto cds, and also, if you really are convinced you cannot get them burnt properly, then try going to "YourLinux.co.uk", they will burn you a copy of linux, and post it to you for next to cost price, anywhere in the world. There are bound to be similar services closer to your actual location, but they are the only ones i know about, i'm afraid.
hopefully someone will come along and help you out a bit better than this...
bha:
i appreciate your help. any wisdom at all in this area helps me out. i probably didn't burn the cds correctly. i'll check it out through the links you posted. i am also currently downloading the program again just to make sure that it is not a corrupted file. thanks again...
RudeCat7:
I can't tell if you tried browsing the CDs in windows.
If you can browse them, they're o.k. and if that is the case you may have to make a boot floppy using rawrite32. Check your docs on how to do this.
[ September 15, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]
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