Keep on having fun. Now I burn my ISOs to CD/RWs so that I can update them regularly. I have hundreds of old distros going back 7 or 8 years in a box in my basement. I doubt I will ever use them again.
The main thing is that you are having fun! I would suggest three things once you start installing lots of distros. Settle on one as you main distro. Keep your home directory on a separate partition. Learn how to modify the boot loader (Grub or Lilo). Yes, PCLinuxOS is a great distro. So are lots of others. Try SUSE 10.3 for its elegance. Try Ubuntu 7.10 for its huge repositories. Try MEPIS (once they get to their final release). Remember to not judge a distro by its desktop manager. You can get many of them in either Gnome or KDE versions. Enjoy! ----- Original Message ---- From: Ty Giannattasio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:49:22 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Puppy and Feather linux ???s Yea, Live CD collection. I finally got the CDs to burn properly. Used Nero. And now I am having so much fun I have <Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, TinyMe, DSL, Puppy, Feather and Slax in my ever growing collection. When I build my own tower pc I think I will put in PCLinux so far I like that one best but I haven't messed with Ubuntu much. What is you opinion? Ty ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary To: LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:19 PM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Puppy and Feather linux ???s --- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, "Ty Giannattasio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys/gals another question for you linux wizez, > I downloaded and burnt feather and puppy linux like I was recommended and when I try to boot the OS up, on any of my PCs, there is no data recognition from the CD. I copied them as an .iso file and everything. I had done the same with DSL and it works fine, (on my newer PCs.) When I open the file with Windows, on the puppy and feather, I just see and unrecognized file and nothing else. When I open DSL in Windows you see a boot folder and when that is opened there is an .iso folder and opening that there is a few icons, ie: boot, mail, isofile. etc... Did I burn the images incorrectly or is there a better way of going about it. Think of the *.iso file as a *.zip or *.cab file; you don't want the solitary *.iso file itself on the CD, you want the files within the *.iso on the CD. But in addition to the directories and files you named, what makes the *.iso special is that it contains the hidden sectors, the =boot= sectors that allow the CD to start up the machine. And using a given CD-burning software's "Burn CD fron ISO" option -- which is not the same as "Maka a data CD" -- creates the boot sectors. So, look for the "Burn from ISO" option! Most Linux distributions take up the full 600+MB CD (or even a full DVD!), so packing more than one onto a CD usually isn't possible. Puppy and Feather are (by design) much smaller than that, however getting both onto the same CD and independently bootable would be a ridiculously technical process. More trouble than it would be worth! 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