On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:13, Douglas Tutty wrote: > 5.3.1 > Is there a possibility of the cdrom being mountable (e.g. > manually), but not useable for the install? If so, instructions > for transferring the CD to an iso file on a hard disk (or usb > stick) could be usefull, as a variation on hd booting. A user > may have no direct way of getting an iso onto a hard disk.
Hmm. I can't really oversee the implications of this and it also sounds like this is trying to reinvent the hdmedia installation method. > 5.3.2. > Before making a floppy, I verify the md5sum. After making it, I > use dd to make a new image file from the floppy and verify the > md5sum. If it verifies, the floppy should work If the floppy > doesn't work then redownloading the image file doesn't help if > the md5sum is already verified. Yes, good point. I've changed the text so that downloading again is not advised by default. Thanks for your comments. Cheers, FJP
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