Re: Where the F**K do I begin?

On 31 Aug, 08:54, GregFores...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
OK, I know someone is going to tell me to buy it on CD. Well, if the
price was the cost of a blank CD, plus actual shipping I might
consider it.
Not far off. There are people who specialise in just that sort of
thing:
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/livecds/
http://www.cheeplinux.com/

OK, the price is a pound or so above the cost of the blank CD, but
they have to earn a living.

Or you could try one of the hundreds of magazine cover disks:
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=NewArchives
for example. Even the general purpose magazines, PCW, Computer
Shopper, usually put an .iso of a new linux distro on their covermount
DVDs.


Oh, you asked about .iso files. a .iso is an "image" of a cd or dvd.
Including those bits of the disk that make it bootable. it can be
burned to a blank disk, but normally with a separate menu command from
your burning software. The built-in disk burner in XP is brain
damaged and does not understand .iso files - you can use isobuster or
some such thing to enhance it, but I would go straight for proper
burning software: www.cdburnerxp.se is free, for example, as is
deepburner.

There are some stunningly good tutorials on both the Ubuntu and Fedora
web sites, but you might be better off with a printed book. Boxed
editions of Suse and Mandriva, for example, include a book and a month
or 3 of telephone/web support - which is what you are really paying
for in buying the boxed set.

A far better idea if you want to dip your toe in is to try a Linux
User Group - see http://www.linux.org/groups/ for a list. You can go
to one of the meetings, shoulder surf, ask questions, drink coffee,
and maybe even make friends with someone. They are geeks, remember,
they don't get out much.

Good luck!

--
Bob Harvey
reply-to address spoofed. Use bobharvey {at} europe {dot} com instead


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