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.

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Regards,

Roger 
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