I give up. I changed my mind, and I installed Ubuntu. It looks OK, let me play with it for few days ( or months) if this is unstable I might come back.
Cheers, Pubudu. -----Original Message----- From: Robert G. Hays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 10:09 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD Pubudu, one last thought... before you alter the partitions on your drive to make room for the Linux, two thoughts: 1) you ned to defrag your drive, either with any built-in tools in WhinedoZZZe, or best if you have or can afford, SpeedDisk from Norton.... 2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims', if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my fingers firmly crossed (hopeful/prayerful!). Anybody know about this? ( And sorry typo in last email!) best, rgh. Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Robert G. Hays wrote: > >> At Bottom..... >> >> Andreas Fredriksson wrote: >> >>> On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but >>>> is >>>> possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO >>>> file to a folder and burn the contents of the folder. Note that >>>> you're not to burn the folder itself, but the contents of the >>>> folder. The cd will take the place of that folder :) >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> AFAIK this will remove the ISO header links to the bootable catalog >>> (the embedded floppy boot section). All the files will probably be >>> included (possibly with wrong file permissions, such as the >>> executable >>> bit) but the CD will not boot. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andreas >>> >>> >> CONCUR! -- this will not work. I know someone that did it (me, long >> ago!). >> >> DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!! >> >> SUGGESTION: (Pudubu) this is like *really* not the distro to start >> with; I know a lot & it took me *forever* to do, and a 'newbie' >> installing to a drive with another o/s on it will probably manage to >> destroy the other o/s . Try Mandrake first, *then* if you really >> want to learn all the greasy, grimy, blood-&-guts learning you can go >> to Gentoo. (I am basically a newbie to Gentoo, and I already love >> it.) (Or try SuSE or FedoraCore or Xandros or Linspire or Ubunto; >> I've heard lots of good about all, but I no longer like SuSE very >> much, and I do know that Mandrake is good for newbies; the others I >> know only by hear-say.) >> ------- >> (This advice is free, because you couldn't *possibly* afford to pay >> for its actual value unless you are Bill Gates masquerading as >> 'Pudubu'!) >> Best!, >> rgh. >> >> > > Oh right... I forgot the bootable thing! Well, one can make a bootable > cd via Nero and select the boot image in the cd to boot from. > > And yes, I would definitely not start with Gentoo as my first Linux > distro... > > Sorry for the wrong info earlier... > > Regards, > Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
