On Monday June 16 2003 05:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: > ><snip> > > > > If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it > > isn't a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. 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.
> For those of you who don't use windows... > > an FYI: Win98 & later will see ANY compressed image (.iso, .rar, > .zip, .tar,.bzip, .nrg... it goes on) as a COMPRESSED file.
W98 should see it as a compressed file. Any OS should recognize an image file (such as .iso) as a compressed archive. They are. .tar's aren't compressed, .tar.gz's are tho.
<snip> my point was that yes the OS is displaying its icons & stuff correctly...or so it thinks..but these are minor details that will fry a newbs brain so lets not dwell on them ... my post was more of an FYI for others. And to say, don't worry about the icons themselves. :D
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