On Sat Aug-12-2017 09:45, mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) wrote to Roger Nelson:
ml> On 2017 Aug 12 05:54:14, you wrote to me:
RN>>>> Ain't gonna. Still trying to figure out where I went wrong with
RN>>>> installing ArcaOS 5 on my laptop.
ml>>> what are you seeing that you are counting as a failure to install??
RN>> What I'm seeing is that I'm missing an ISO file. The whole program
RN>> was supposed to be on this disc and it isn't, so I looked for the ISO,
RN>> which was supposed to be on another disc.
ml>> oh... is this something that you downloaded from them or disks that
ml>> came via some sort of delivery vehicle? eg: postal, ups, fedex,
ml>> dhl...
RN> Postal and I think someone forgot to stamp the disc with the ISO file.
ml> so you got a blank disk?
No.
ml> normally the disk is the ISO... i used to make ISOs from CDs for my
ml> linux "CD jukebox" all the time... we do that with the dd command
ml> on linux...
ml> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/my_ISO_image.iso
ml> this says to input from (if=) the cdrom device and to output to
ml> (of=) a file in the home directory (~/) called my_ISO_image.iso...
ml> since we're reading from the raw disk, this works great...
Greek to me since I don't use Linux.
RN> I'll get back to it one of these days.
ml> so, i'm rereading what was said earlier... are you saying that you
ml> should have gotten two CDs? or are we talking about floppy disk
ml> images? i'm not sure and i haven't dropped the funds for ArcaOS yet
ml> so i don't personally know what the package contains... you might
ml> have a "damaged" CD or a burn that your CD reader doesn't like...
ml> i've seen that numerous times when burning on one machine and
ml> trying to read on another... we've got one here that refuses to
ml> read and CDs unless they are silver... the red, blue, green, purple
ml> and other colored CDs it just doesn't like at all...
Well, I had to get VMware to run ArcaOS in a box.
...Terse answers FREE; verbose answers $5 each.
Regards,
Roger
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