On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> At 05:05 PM 3/20/00 +0100, Corrado Santoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Gilbert, concerning GRUB, I've downloaded the bootable image from the URL
> >provided (the same you're using), and it works fine.
> >What is your problem exactly ?
>
> My exact problem is this: I have two stupid browsers. They refuse to
> download any file that has no extension. I click on a link they do nothing,
> nothing at all, not even an error message. With "unknown" extensions, I
> usually get a dialog box prompting me to save the file. I don't believe it
> is a problem with the website or link.
>
> If stage1 and stage2 were added to an archive, such as stage1and2.tgz or
> stage1and2.zip, I could download it and extract these files.
>
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>
> I hadn't thought of it before. A JOS program can do this, can't it? It
> might be time to role my own download-to-disk program. While a JOS program
> might help me here and now, am I going to be the only one with a stupid
> browser?
>
> Can we automate the process of creating a JOS boot disk?
Gilbert,
I think this is a good idea. Meanwhile, I've posted a .tar.gz file in my JOS
binary web pages which contains the binaries for GRUB and a shell script which
creates the GRUB boot diskette.
I hope this will help all the JOS people.
-Corrado
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