On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:27:50 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 10 September 2006 19:19, Beartooth wrote: >> I downloaded the live CD of Puppy Linux, and tried to burn it to a CD. K3B >> has a specially setting for burning ISOs -- the puppy page had told me to >> look for that -- but only for DVDs. K3B wouldn't let me use it. [...] >> I don't often burn any CD, and may be making some obvious error. What >> is it?? >> > There shouldn't be any problem about burning the CD with Tools > Burn CD > Image. I've often done it. It's a silly mistake in the menu that > particularly mentions ISO on the DVD one but not on the CD one. Aha! I had started, when K3B launched, with the upper right choice of the four canned ones, making a new data CD. Trying it now from Tools > Burn CD Image, with a new CD. When I tried booting FC5, on the machine it wouldn't boot from, and just attempting to open the CD, I got an error message saying that the name indicated "raw CD image," while the contents indicated "Word perfect document" [sic!]. The new burn just completed, announcing success (as it had before). Will now try to boot from the new one. [short pause] Bless you! Sure enough, it booted straight to puppy. Many, many thanks! I have a highly intelligent, learned friend and hunting companion who runs fancy stuff under Windows, just because he hates all things Apple so much (as do I; I sympathize with him there). I've been looking for a long time for a way to persuade him to try linux. He just told me Picasa had been ported (through wine) to linux, and that he couldn't live without it; but svlug tells me several extant linux apps (well, two or three, at least) are better and easier. With 9/10 of the CD still blank, and what I read of puppy, I bet one live CD can be tailored to it plus those apps. I may convert him yet. Besides, I'm interested in live CDs generally, as recruiting tools, and puppy sounds particularly fascinating, especially now that Knoppix fills a DVD. Thanks again, most heartily! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert What do they know of country, who only country know?
