I had seen it but it seemed too trivial to carp about a mistake I will
probably make myself particularly when hurried
"Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] A Very Very Basic Question
> Tony....but you did miss criticizing me for using Linux/UNIX
> slashes in the example instead of windows backslashes. :-)
>
> Alan
>
>
> Tony wrote:
> >
> > Understood now, I was worrying he would take it literally, just put it
> > down to old age and Altsheimers disease- - - - what was the name of that
> > disease??
> > "Weave a circle round him thrice,
> > And close your eyes with holy dread,
> > For he on honeydew hath fed,
> > And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] A Very Very Basic Question
> >
> > > Tony....that was an example of path info, that's why I wrote an
> > > i.e. in front of it.
> > >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > >
> > > Tony wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Alan
> > > > he has the image on C:\images\hdimage, ie. he downloaded direct to
his
> > > > hard drive NOT to cdr
> > > > "Weave a circle round him thrice,
> > > > And close your eyes with holy dread,
> > > > For he on honeydew hath fed,
> > > > And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user)
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Ronald Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:25 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] A Very Very Basic Question
> > > >
> > > > > I will try that Alan...Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 7:31 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] A Very Very Basic Question
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Ron....did you include the path info to the image file (ie.
> > > > > > d:/images/hd.img), or did you really type it as hd.image which
> > > > > > is incorrect? Also was a:: appended to that field? That would
> > > > > > also be incorrect. I suggest that you use the dos (rawrite.exe)
> > > > > > program rather than either of the windows versions. Run it in a
> > > > > > dos window.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Alan
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Ronald Brown wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Group, I do apologize for being so novice. That is what one
> > > > > > > gets for
> > > > > > > working on this all night without rest and I must say thank
> > > > > > > God for adsl :)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It seems that many people are missing my point. I do not have
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > installation of Mandrake on a CD-ROM. A plain download to my
> > > > > > > local hard
> > > > > > > drive. My problems seems to come from trying to do a
> > > > > > > RAWRITE.exe I have
> > > > > > > never ran into this before, so it's a learning process. I
> > > > > > > followed the
> > > > > > > directions, but the files I need to write to the floppy want
> > > > > > > write there.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > In my mistake of downloading the ISO and using winimage, it
> > > > > > > worked perfect.
> > > > > > > When click the RAWRITE file, it asks for the image source
> > > > > > > file....I enter
> > > > > > > hd.image a:: but nothing. What am I doing wrong?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Ron Brown
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
