Eventually got a good download. A lot of the mirror links are dead, i ended up setting downloads going from all the working mirrors so I am not entirely sure which one worked.
Thanks for suggestions Caber :) On Dec 8, 10:45 pm, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, true, as I said "not that you can do much with them, unless you > have an Intel based Mac that is." > > But so far the question only was "why can't I view the contents of > the .ISO", normally all you have to do to view the content of an .ISO > is to double click on it, and it will open as if you had just inserted > tEventually he burned CD, its a standard feature of OSX. > > Assuming caber has an Intel rather than a PPC based Mac, he should be > able to use the Live_CD as well. > If he can't get a good download, I suggest he buys a CD from one of > the many places that offer ready-burned Linux distro's. They are > normally only a few dollar. Still, beats me why he cannot just > download the .ISO. > > On 8 dec, 19:43, Graham Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:44:33 -0800 (PST) > > > caber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Downloads both the same length and correct downloads done in firefox > > > both completed normally! Are any of the links known to be good? > > > > Caber :( > > > The problem that you are coming up against is that unless your Mac is > > an Intel/PPC version, gOS won't load. It won't load on PPC based Macs. > > > One reason for this is that gOS is based on Ubuntu, and the last > > version of Ubuntu that had PPC support was 6.06 - well before gOS came > > along. Another reason is that gOS developers (unfortunately in my > > view) have said they will not support PPC. Nor will they support a KDE > > version. > > > So - for you on your Mac - a link may be good but you will not be able > > to run anything you've downloaded unless you have an Intel-based Mac, > > which the error message you are getting suggests you do not. What you > > will download will be an .iso file, which is an image which you can > > save to a CD or DVD. If you look at the file, you will see folders and > > files which, when on a CD or DVD will be bootable on an Intel based Mac. > > > I've found some of the links are more reliable than others, but most > > links work well - when they work. But once you have the .iso file, you > > probably have a Mac on which it will not run. > > > If you have a PPC Mac, you should try one of the distributions listed > > onhttp://www.penguinppc.orgwhichhas the most up-to-date information > > on Linux for the PPC architecture. > > -- > > Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
