On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Blair Kelly wrote: > Andrew Ivanov wrote: > > > No special instructions, just > > Shift+Left button to save it on disk. > > I thank you for your suggestion. Yet when I tried it, I got a file that > is > 689K long while the file while downloading says it is only 688K long. > (Should I be worried?) And it still appears as a Netscape icon that
Nah; minor differences like that can be attributed to different ways of counting a megabyte and the cluster size of the drive it's stored on, etc. > when I click on it brings up Netscape with gobbdy-gook inside. > (Which I expect, since this is a binary file.) > > By the way the reason I am trying to download it to my hard disk is > so that I can do an install from disk as described in section 6.2 of the > > installation instructions. The instructions say I need this file. It sounds like the file is being saved to your hard drive with an .HTM[L] extension. If Win98 is configured to hide known file extensions (which is the default, and which in my opinion is STUPID with a capital STUPID), turn off that option for future use. For now, just rename the file back to its original. Of course, you can't double-click on it in Windows and expect it to do anything; you've got to use rawrite.exe (or a variant like rawrite2.exe) to copy it to a floppy where it will be used during the booting/installation of Linux. > > Blair > > > > > > > > -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! "Life is an ongoing classroom." - Capt. James T. Kirk, "Dreadnought"
