Hello Know Mystery, >Can i ask you a silly question - what do you do with >your ISOs? Does everyone here know what one is?
What happens is you download a Linux distro as an ISO you then check that it has downloaded OK (using the checksum - which is normally in the same place) then you use a CD burner and create a CD - so if you have a CD burner you can download and create Knoppix or Fedora or whatever . . . I always had problems until using the prog on our freeware wikibook page. >Remember a couple of weeks back when you and Francis >were talking about Win 3.11? Wasn't it Alms that i got >working on 3.11? I still like the 3.11 computer, and >some of the programs i use here on Win 98 were written >for 3.11. The only limitation I have found is the long >file names. Yes that is right - old but if you put 3.11 on a modern machine - woosh . . . the names on Windows 3.11 were fine but had to be up 8 characters followed by 3 so text.doc - for example >> >> found what is my next ISO burn >> this . . . >> >> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ >> >> (Contains ways of checking for viruses from DOS >> incidentally - think I saw that) > >Thanks for pointing this out... I am still struggling >to get that one computer repaired, and this one has >something going on in DOS before the firewall loads. I >was given a bootable CD to use to run a McAfee checker >in DOS, but this computer is so old you cannot set the >bios to boot from CD!! Is there any way around that, i >wonder? There is a way around that - you can boot from a floppy that puts the CD driver into a ram disk that makes the CD recognizable . . . >Something is going on - the aol browser window for any >site i try comes up blank with an * in the top left >corner - only it looks more like a little bug than an >asterisk. > >FireFox works fine, IE works fine, but not aol >suddenly. aol like people to use their own highly configured browser (I think they are using a modified IE at the moment) If browsing with that then their tech support should help you . . . . (you are paying for it . . .) It is probably one of the ascci or ansi escape codes >> When you download a ISO a small piece of text is >> usually included in the >> same directory this is the ISO checksum - if you >> check your download image >> against it you will be certain it has copied OK >> and you can then burn it > >This is a good idea. as I say never had a problem - just manged to get vector Linux working on the hard disk - decided to play the enclosed tux game and crashed the system - Linux does not crash? - maybe in penguin land but in the real? - gave up for now - but nothing can keep me away from Tux - so cute - it was a slackware distro and this is meant to be very 'universal' - the word 'slack ' incidently is from the discordian cult religion (The Church of the SubGenius) Lobster ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/J8folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HolyGeek/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
