Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me.
On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb > > hard drive, cd rom drive, > > floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would > > go on the little thing. > > I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a > > bootable cd. The cd > > booted but no sign of linux. So I thought couldn't hurt to try it in my > > laptop. The laptop won't > > boot from cd but looking at the disk showed the iso file that wasn't seen > > on this junk. Figure that > > one out. > > > > > How did you burn the CD? If you donwloaded a .iso file, then that is the > CD image, and you need to tell your burning software to use a saved image. > You can not just add it to the file list, and burn it to CD. > > You can bet a working Linux system, complete with X, with that small of a > drive, but you have to be carefull what you install. You may want to pick > a different Window manager instead of the default KDE. > > You do not say what modle you have, so we can not tell you if there are > any specific things to watch out for with your laptop. My experence with > Toshiba laptops is limmited to installing RadHad on a 400CDT. It worked, > but X on 640 x 480 can be a chalange... > > Mikkel > -- > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. > > > >
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