What Next

[Terry Polzin]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 11:02, Don Cavaiani wrote:
> I have downloaded the 4 large CD images to my PC hard drive (XP).  I also
> have a copy of UltraISO which is able to display the actual files under the
> CD Image files.  I know I need to create some kind of a Boot CD or Floppy,
> but I have not found a clear explanation yet.  I expect that if I can boot
> into Linux, then I will need to use "parted" to create a small FAT32
> partition, and the Linux partition ........and then load the entire Linux
> O/S ???
Are you intending to dual-boot with another OS or are you building a 
standalone system?  If you are going to do a network or other kind of media 
less install, then you need to at least burn the boot.iso file located on CD 
#1 onto a CD and boot from it then specifying the location of the iso files.