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need linux install help
Aoshi:
well, ive finally snapped when my computer running win95 crashed, so im trying to switch over to linux, but being the newb that i am, i hardly even know what the instructions are saying. so far ive d/led the iso images and have everything for the install, (i think) but now i dont know what to do. btw, im installing fedora linux. So right now its telling me to mount the bootdisk.img to my floppy, but i dont know what its saying or how to do it. they have provide the command line to do it, but it mentions a shell prompt above where i got this and i dont even know what that is.
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>
In the above command replace <isofilename> and <mountpoint> with the correct file name and mount point respectively. The directory given as the mount point must exist
now, i know what i should do for the isofilename, but i dont have a clue what the mountpoint should be.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by Aoshi:
well, ive finally snapped when my computer running win95 crashed, so im trying to switch over to linux, but being the newb that i am, i hardly even know what the instructions are saying. so far ive d/led the iso images and have everything for the install, (i think) but now i dont know what to do. btw, im installing fedora linux. So right now its telling me to mount the bootdisk.img to my floppy, but i dont know what its saying or how to do it. they have provide the command line to do it, but it mentions a shell prompt above where i got this and i dont even know what that is.
mount -o loop -t iso9660 <isofilename> <mountpoint>
In the above command replace <isofilename> and <mountpoint> with the correct file name and mount point respectively. The directory given as the mount point must exist
now, i know what i should do for the isofilename, but i dont have a clue what the mountpoint should be.
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Burn the ISOs on CDs.
The "-o loop" thingy doesn't always work in Windows.
PS: If you don't have a burner, you'd better unpack them.
[ May 10, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
Aoshi:
ok...ill have to do that once my computer reads cd's which is what im working on now, the guide im using refers to a 3.5 inch diskette...which i dont think is a floppy, but anyway its saying i have to burn the image files onto it, i just tryed copying it but hell if that worked. and they supplied rawwrite.exe but i cant extract it, well, i did, (i think) but it just wont work, its saying im missing some exe called t3h.exe and im just completly lost
Aoshi:
edit to previous post, they said to "write" the files not burn....still lost, and you know what i dont get, this iso that everything is on, has about 20 different help files, none of which that work or have anything in them....
edit: oops didnt know theere was an edit button, well anyway when i extract the rawrite.exe from the disk iso's it reads as 0 bytes even though its a program file...
another edit: when i try to extract the same rawrite.exe to the same place a window comes up saying are you sure you want to replace the rawrite.exe in my files worth 0 bytes with this rawrite.exe worth 14000+ bytes.....
ugh, i think id just go back to windows 95 if i could find that stupid dos disk, ill tell you what, we still have a windows 3.1 dos disk, but we dont have the 95 one, or the 98 one....
[ May 10, 2004: Message edited by: Aoshi ]
insomnia:
If you have CD writer, BURN THEM.
Info: http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html
If you don't, try an FTP-installation.
[ May 10, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
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