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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