29th July 2004, 1:14 PM
You misunderstand. Due to how these things need to be installed, downloading isn't enough. You actually do have to first burn the ISO images you download onto a CD (or 3), and then you have to boot from the CD. Now, if you are using an older computer, prepair to go on a search for just the right floppy drive boot disk that does nothing more than point the boot procedure to the CD-ROM drive (or, you know, you could make the CD-ROM drive C: in the lineup, but that opens up a whole new nest of trouble). If you are using a newer PC, your PC already scans the disk drives for boot information. After burning it all to the CDs, then you just install just like if you bought the CDs pre-burned. You will need software that can burn ISO images though. Fortunatly, Nero came with that DVD burner I got as a gift a while back.
Anyway, generally downloading is the SAME as buying preburned disks except you need a burner and some blank disks.
Anyway, generally downloading is the SAME as buying preburned disks except you need a burner and some blank disks.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)