(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:42, archived)

pffft
clever
( glued eel, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:45, archived)

excellent

(asciifaceofbob waka waka waka waka, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:46, archived)

no babs?

( Faithless, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:46, archived)

hahaha :D
excellent hummus
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:46, archived)

Hey a word in your shell-like sonny jim!
I downloaded that Slax Linux and it just doesn't boot at all.

What a waste of 180mbs of bandwidth and 2 CDS
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:48, archived)

hahaha! Slax is Kaiser`s thing not mine :)

try ubuntu! or even SUSE Personal :p
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:49, archived)

That ubuntu is 540mbs
I hope it's worth it.
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:52, archived)

well if Windows had a "try before you buy" would you try it?
except you don`t need to buy Linux :)
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:55, archived)

put the windows xp disk in
set the bios to boot from cd
never look back
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:50, archived)

or press the bios key when you're booting up.
if like me, you never got an XP disk.
( lazygamer with new improved "MNNNNNNGGH" formula, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:55, archived)

XP disc isn`t for setting the boot device though
it`s just the PC BIOS
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:59, archived)

well.
*doesn't have any of this booting bollocks to worry about*
( lazygamer with new improved "MNNNNNNGGH" formula, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:09, archived)

pffft
are you one of those people who has to spend extra money to be able to record sound on your "computer" then? ;)

:p
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:11, archived)

no, i'm one of those people who plugs an input source into their 'computer'
and opens up garageband, the music recording/editing doo-hickey that came with it for free.

:)
( lazygamer with new improved "MNNNNNNGGH" formula, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:13, archived)

ahh I know nowt about them.. DrDunno wanted to know about recording on Macs

( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:15, archived)

ahh seeing GoldenVanjita`s comment
.. you did set your BIOS to boot from CD???
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:50, archived)

i think if she didn't do that
she's probably not ready for linux
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:52, archived)

Yes of course
all of that a ton more beside - the thing just doesn't want to boot.
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:53, archived)

did you burn the discs properly
not just the iso file on a data cd?

/helpful
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:54, archived)

I mounted the iso using Daemon Tools
and then copied the files to the blank CD and burn it.
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:58, archived)

yeah that won't copy the boot stuff
burn the iso to a disk in nero or whatever you have

'burn from image' or something similar
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:59, archived)

mind

( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:00, archived)

ah that won't work
cos the cd needs the bootable 'bit' set.

your cd writer should have a 'burn image' option. use that and show it the iso file when it asks for the image.
( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:00, archived)

the

( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:00, archived)

no that won`t work
you need to burn the ISO image straight to disk

if you just copy the files, you won`t get the boot sector copied :)
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:00, archived)

piss

( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:01, archived)

you post whore!

( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:04, archived)

i'm trying to improve my near 2 posts a day average!

( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:05, archived)

you`ve almost done a week already!
;)
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:12, archived)

Fair enough I wasn't aware of that
I although thought you have the mount the iso using Daemon tools
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:02, archived)

thats just if you want to view the contents of the cd
in windows without burning it
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:03, archived)

Right got you now
I'm loading up my Nero disk as we speak/type/interface
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:05, archived)

intercourse

(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:06, archived)

You wish
:P
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:07, archived)

hmm I dunno then... I did download Knoppix before - 3 CDs and it wouldn`t boot
I just stick with ubuntu these days... I likes it a lot
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:56, archived)

i still have feora core 3 on my other hd
can't remember the last time i used it though
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:56, archived)

don't start this again..

( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:57, archived)

haha
ello mate
(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:57, archived)

*waves*

( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:59, archived)

I used that for about a week, but I thought it was slow, plus they`d taken MP3 support away as well as DVD... so I thought "ah fuck that" as it`s too much hassle to patch around it to get the basics!

( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:01, archived)

out of interest
does ubuntu come with any proprietary stuff like flash / realplayer / nvidia drivers?
( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:01, archived)

will it let me use photoshop/play tony hawks/draw cocks to my mates in msn?

(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:04, archived)

I got Photoshop going today :)
having a little hassle with Flash/Dreamweaver, although I can live without Dreamweaver
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:07, archived)

emmmmmm from what I remember from when I installed, no, they`re not installed
but what you do is add repositories (like download locations, in case you don`t know much about it) and it`s based on Debian Linux, so you just enter extra download locations, and you can download pretty much anything, including xmms (proper mp3 support - disabled as standard), xine (dvd playback), flash player, wine (runs some Windows apps)... I thiiiink the NVidia driver needs an extra repository added - I got it going fairly quickly anyway (using some kind of GeForce 4 card at the min)

but you get stuff like Firefox and Thunderbird from the default repositories from what I remember
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:06, archived)

'bout the same as fedora then
i use alternative yum repos.
( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:08, archived)

I`d like to see it when it`s the stable release
we use Red Hat 8 I think in work for our big`n`nasty development server, and it`s been rock solid, but we`re gonna move it to Fedora when we get some time
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:13, archived)

there is no stable release!
that's the beauty of fedora, we're all just redhat's testing bitches :p
( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:32, archived)

gah sod that then!
I`m not going to spend all my time playing with release candidates.. may as well just use Debian unstable ;)
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:37, archived)

yeah i couldn't get it to play a dvd

(GoldenFanjita, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:02, archived)

so
you didn't burn the isos as a big file on a normal data cd?

*snicker*

anyway he speaks the truth. ubuntu, suse or fedora are most likely what you seek...
( slight yoinks!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:56, archived)

I'm not that stupid
I've burnt more CDs/DVDs than I can remember
( maiden I have little to say.... "Little" there I said it!, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:00, archived)

maybe you burned it to a different CD then ;)


*runs away*
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 18:01, archived)

does anything happen?
or does it boot straight in to Windows? if so can you browse the CD and see all the files? (just to check the CD is readable)
( Reckless_Rik, Sun 27 Feb 2005, 17:56, archived)