About To Install Linux

[ultimatejester]

They only have one Canadaian mirror. I didnt find any OS file in that one. How about i use the Texas one.

[safrole]

I think these live cds are just what linux needs to become a mainstream desktop os

True. Live's are good for newbies, just cd/ram-boot and go. If you connect via ethernet card, chances are you can use dhcp to continue connecting, unless you've got some obscure/obsolete devices.
I like the Debian live's. Tried Mandrake but the individual pkdg selection is a bit tedious, too many
dependency Y/n, plus I find apt-get > rpm.
Whatever you choose, study the package list. The Linux kernel keeps evolving so you need the necessary tools to compile it. Distrowatch lists the major packages for each cataloged distro.

[DWk]

Wondering if there's anything I should check/uncheck in Nero before burning my Mandrake Move iso I downloaded?

[shn]

Originally posted by DWk@25 January 2004 - 20:20
Wondering if there's anything I should check/uncheck in Nero before burning my Mandrake Move iso I downloaded?

I have so many distros burned to a cd that I dont use nero for burning linux iso's. I use a much smaller and less system consuming app since I burn in the background a lot.http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

It easily integrates into the right click menu for a quick burn of any iso image and it can finalize as well.

I usually use nero when Im doing music, and video burning. But the app above is much more lightweight. Sometimes you do have to check or uncheck some options in nero depending on what type of image your burning. Why cant nero just burn the iso in one step?. Why does it have to be so advanced for an iso image? Here is what it looks like............btw its completely free no strings attached.

[safrole]

Wondering if there's anything I should check/uncheck in Nero before burning my Mandrake Move iso I downloaded?

Yes. Finalize and select disc-at-once. Maybe disc-at-once/96. I remember burning a few coasters with track-at-once.

[cselik]

i've tried them all, even beos and some unixes.
i can tell u one thing: don't be logged in as root, only when u need to do someting only root can do.

i stayed on suse, don't like it very much though. But since im not using x, only putty-ing to it, guess it doesn't matter than.

yeah, suse will tell you things when you enter a: bash.

[DWk]

Originally posted by safrole@25 January 2004 - 22:31

Wondering if there's anything I should check/uncheck in Nero before burning my Mandrake Move iso I downloaded?

Yes. Finalize and select disc-at-once. Maybe disc-at-once/96. I remember burning a few coasters with track-at-once.

Ok.... the file name is MandrakeMove-i586.iso

I assume that i586 is some kind of Standard? I'm gonna try burning Mandrake today and testing it at the university.

Thanks for the proggie, shn, I'll get onto that

[DWk]

There goes one coaster with Nero

I burned with DAO and when I try to boot with the CD, it goes around like it's not a bootable CD (although it does check if it is)

[uNz[i]]

Just swiped this from the Morphix FAQ,, and they in turn swiped it from the Mandrake readme, so it should help you get sorted Dwk.

(Note: this has been copied from the Mandrake Readme and has been slightly edited, credit where credit due)

All the CD-Writing software can use ISO image to burn directly a CD-Rom.

Important note: take care to download the ISO in binary mode (FTP). By default Netscape download the file in ASCII mode which corrupt the image. You can check the integrity of the ISO file with the md5 key (md5sum mandrake.iso under Linux), go to http://www.etree.org/md5com.html to get the md5sum.exe version if you are using Windows)

If the download
fails you can use "Resume" which allows you to continue the download. It
works with ftp (reget), ncftp, CuteFTP, Getright, ...

With Easy CD Creator:
--------------------
Open Easy CD Creator
Go to "File"
then to "Create CD from disc image"
make sure to change the bottom drop down menu ("Files of type:") to say
"ISO image files"

It will do the rest after you browse to the *.iso file
(Thanks for zacheyer)

With WinOnCD:
------------
you can select a
"track-image" project when you click the New button. So long as you are
in track mode, not file-system mode (how that looks depends on whether
you have 3.0 or 3.5) then dragging a track image file onto the CD window
should accept it as a raw track. WinOnCD uses .RAW as its own
extension
(Thanks Rick Jones)

With Nero Burning Rom:
----------------------
Open Nero.
Close the wizard if it is started automatically.
Go to "File"
then to "Burn Image...".
In the next dialog, click on "Image Files (*.nrg)" and select "All files
(*.*)".
Choose the .iso file and accept.
In the following dialog make sure:
- Type of Image is: Data Mode 1
- Block size: 2048
- Image header: 0
- Image trailer: 0
- All the checkboxes are unactive.
Click "OK".
In the next dialog check that the "write" and "finalize" option are active.
Click on "Write".
(Thanks Antonio Asensi)

With CD-Record:
---------------
CD-Writing HowTo:
http://howto.linuxberg.com/ptHOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO

For example:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=4,0 mandrake.iso
You get the number on the SCSI bus number with "cdrecord --scanbus"

Good luck.

[DWk]

Actually when I try to burn with Nero, i have all those options correct