On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:41, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > > Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows > > program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative > > but I bet there is one. > > unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf rpm. I use it everyday usin FileRoller as > the GUI frontend to it. Works great, even on very large files with > many many partxx.rar's. > > > > > If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar > > and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. > > > > Extract the image to a tmp folder and you will then have an iso > > file that Nero or any CD writer can handle. > > > > Burn the CD to disk following the CD burning software you haves > > instructions. > > > On Sun, 15 Jun > > > > 2003 19:53:51-0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > i download the iso image, it's in winrar format, i can't > > > extract it and burn it or can i? the computer won't > > > install...lemme put it this way... > > I don't understand this. You're d/l'g .iso images from > Mandrake's site and W98 see them as .rar's? Doesn't make any sense > at all.
For about a year or so, WinRAR has a built-in ability to see and open ISO files. Furthermore, if you don't change the default settings withing after installing, double-clicking or 'running' and ISO frm the 'Run' command line with actually start WinRAR and show and open the ISO image. It won't hurt it to do so as long as you don't attempt to extract the contents. > This from several year old memory, but I completely borked > my Mandrake install, and had to use W98 to d/l the Mandrake .iso's, > then used EZCD Creator to make CD's so I could get back to Linux. > No problem. > > If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it isn't > a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. Yes, it will extract it if you let it, and do so properly. Whether Windows can accept and protect the long file names and naming conventions used in the files that are not Windows-legal is doubtful. > It just needs to be > burnt to a cd as an image, not a data file. .iso are just one type > of image file, audio CD's are another, any OS. As has already been > suggested, check the md5sum of the iso before, and the CD after > burning. If those check, and the CD won't boot, most likely it's a > hardware or configuration problem.
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