You can use Nero to burn that CD if you would like. There should be an
option to burn CD from CD image. And ISO should be available. You may
even be able to double click the ISO file and it will open it up. Since
it sounds like Nero is all that you have available to you at the time,
it should recogize that it should handle that job.
Nero is a much better CD burner utility, and personally I would suggest
that you stick with that one. In my experience it's been a bit faster
as well.
As for your 'rant.' I call myself a more experienced user, even though
I'm always learning, but my sister, who really only knows how to check
email, browse, use ICQ, and AIM, finds Linux very user friendly. Yes
she's never installed the OS itself, but she can do what she needs and
wants in Linux. She now prefers Linux over Windows. She'd rather user
StarOffice then Office2000 and likes LICQ better then ICQ. (She also
thinks Tux is cute! WOMEN! lol) I really only have Windows for games.
I don't know of an Unreal port for Linux and that would then mean I'd
have to make sure my Voodoo3 3500 working properly and that's just too
much work for me right now.
I've had a few issues with my installs, but they have been hardware
issues that after the "game was afoot" the problem was solved. No
system crashes, no Blue Screen of Death.
And I really hope that once you've created an actual install CD, and can
install the os, that you will find the same for yourself. Linux is
quite an experience and it's been very enjoyable for myself and now for
my 19 year old sister.
Hope you can get thing situated so you can install and truly become a
member in the club!
tdh
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T. Holmes
Unixtechs.org
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* Dave Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010127 17:51]:
> Hi, John and all;
>
> Early this morning (about 4:11 am), I finished downloading the ISO files
> that I began last Sunday evening. It took only 5.5 days to download both
> ISO
> files with my super duper speedy delivery dial-up connection. ;)
>
> I tried to install this version of Linux-Mandrake, having been burned to CD
> but am told by the installer that it doesn't appear to be a Linux-Mandrake
> disk. After several attempts including 1 with the purchased CD (which
> contains only a beta of KDE2.0 but which initializes correctly) I booted
> back to Windows and looked at the purchased disk (showed a number of
> directories as expected) and at the one I had just burned (contains no tree
> nor even 1 directory, only the ISO file.. which is exactly the correct size
> as compared to what I downloaded.)
>
> I decided that I better test the install boot (floppy) disk I made,
> thinking that it might be pointing to something it can't find on the CD.
> (by the way, the CD device I used to try to install either disk is the
> writer not the
> CD-ROM; everything works fine with the purchased disk but not the one I
> burned) In my BIOS, i changed the boot order to boot from the the cd
> device,
> then C:\ then A:\. On reboot, I read that CD failed and it booted to C:\.
> I tried both CD devices with the same failure resulting.
>
> What must I do to make this file function? A rhetorical question: 4.5
> years ago when I was totally new to Windows (had only ever used a DOS
> machine before that), I never had this much trouble with that OS nor since;
> why do I want this one so much? Rhetoric off, rant on: why IS this such a
> bugger to install and configure for someone who is not a programmer and
> 'only' a user? Wouldn't Linux be more likely to do some serious damage to
> the MS market if it were a little more user friendly? Rant off. <g>
>
> Tenacity reigns; I still want Linux. Any suggestions anyone?
>
> Dave
>
> John W wrote:
> >
> > You can download the ISO image and burn that to a cd/cd's. I have also
> > looked at the mandrake mirrors and in the past have downloaded everything
> > except the lin4win and dostools to my harddrive in a folder named Mandrake
> > and have then created a boot image to boot up and direct the installer the
> > Mandrake DIR and installed from a Fat partition.
> > --
> > John W
>
> --
> Dave Burrows
> 741 Cleveland Road
> Washington, PA 15301
> USA
