Re: distribution Question - dual boot distros?

Bit Twister <BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 17 Jul 2006 17:29:04 -0700, buzz wrote:
Hi all
am looking for a distribution which is easy to set up for duial booting
with XP
on seperate drives


I'll recommend Mandriva Linux for a harddrive install.

Want to see some install screenshots.
http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux/101/en/Starter.html/drakx-intro.html


Mandriva Download Mirror list
http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors/2006

Unfortunately Mandriva seems to trying very hard to hide all of their
mirrors. Thus the above gives a "Page not found" from Mandriva.
The only mirrors they now seem to publish are those for MandrivaOne.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mandrivaone
However, if you go to the parent directory, there are the downloads for
Mandriva 2006 Free.

Weird, or scary, I am not sure which.

Mind you if you want to set up your own mirror, they give full instructions
on how to do that.

http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/otherdownloads/mirrors/rsync



Hunt around on any mirror for somethining like

/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/official/iso/2006.0/i586

Or just go to the parent directory of the MandrivaOne download for the
isos.


which will be about 2 clicks on
Up to higher level directory
then you navigate to the iso directory for something like

Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-CD.i586.md5.asc 1 KB 11/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-CD.i586.sha1.asc 1 KB 11/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-CD1.i586.iso 712774 KB 11/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-CD2.i586.iso 712540 KB 11/13/2005 12:00:00 AM
Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-CD3.i586.iso 712882 KB 11/13/2005 12:00:00 AM

or get dvd files.

You need to verify the sha1 or md5 checksum before burning to verify
you have a good download.

ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exe
http://etree.org/md5com.html ! dos md5sum.exe
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ ! dos md5sum.exe
http://www.toast442.org/md5gui.shtml ! dos md5sum.exe

.

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