I'm ready to give up Linux!!
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Aug 7 08:17:32 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:50 +0200, MoonShine wrote:
> 1. Ok I am able to download whatever it is im trying to download but
> the damn thing wont open up! For example for test i downloaded a game
> that was a .exe type but it wasnt supported so most of the things I
> try to download are file types that arn't supported...where the
> update for that!SHEESH!
Generally, "exe" files are Windows executable, although there's nothing
stopping someone from making a Linux file with a name like that. You
can use *some* Windows software on Linux through emulators or virtual
machines, but it may be painful to use that way. Try giving a specific
example of something that you've tried.
> 2. The disc was purchased via ebay and the brand of the disc is shown
> on the DVD it just says Bootable DVD folling with fedora 7 printed on
> top.
Hmm, I'm always a bit dubious of things from ebay, but try this: On a
system that is working, try and browse the disc. You should see
something like this in it:
Fedora/ 27-May-2007 10:30 -
GPL 26-May-2007 02:25 18K
RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html 26-May-2007 02:25 154K
RPM-GPG-KEY 27-May-2007 10:40 1.9K
RPM-GPG-KEY-beta 27-May-2007 10:40 1.7K
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 27-May-2007 10:40 1.5K
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide 27-May-2007 10:40 1.1K
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test 27-May-2007 10:40 1.1K
RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide 27-May-2007 10:40 1.2K
fedora.css 27-May-2007 10:40 2.8K
images/ 27-May-2007 10:40 -
isolinux/ 27-May-2007 17:22 -
repodata/ 27-May-2007 17:22 -
stylesheet-images/ 27-May-2007 17:22 -
With the "Fedora" directory containing lots of *rpm files.
If so, it looks fairly likely that you've got a Fedora disc that might
be usable. Of course, if it's a disc that someone else has burnt
there's always the chance that they've just dumped the files onto a
disc, but without making it bootable, as well. Something like that is
still useable, but you'd have to do some more work to be able to boot
and install from it.
--
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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