Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..FGLiveCD boot workaround, was: AI Sim Object Properties

[Ima S. <Ima...@co...>]

>> ..could also be your Wintendo setups.  You might wanna fetch a
>> lightweight distro like http://damnsmalllinux.org/ (50MB for
>> creditcard size cds) and use that to fetch and burn FGLiveCD.
>>
>>
> Hey Arnt, just an observation.... I've noticed that alot of *nix  
> users will
> "dis" Windows at almost every opportunity but I don't nearly as  
> many Windows
> users "dis'ing" *nix... have you noticed this ?
>
> nothing meant by it...just an observation.... ;-)
>
>

I have a Windows 2000 system (updated with latest service packs  
including Nero) that would never burn a cd reliably, even if the md5  
was verified, and even if I didn't use the machine while burning/ 
preparing to burn. (An Athlon 1 Ghz with lots of disk space).

I finally just gave up wasting cd-rs and download/burn everything on  
a mac os x system where I NEVER have a problem. (although I've never  
had any problems downloading on a linux system either. I never tried  
actually burning under linux). You could always try CD-RW, at least  
you wouldn't waste CD-Rs, but I don't know if that would solve the  
issue or if your drive supports burning them.

To download via BitTorrent:

You first need to download a BitTorrent application: see <http:// 
www.bittorrent.com/>. Here's information about the BitTorrent  
protocol from wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent>

To get the latest FGLive cd, you download this file: <http:// 
pigeond.net/flightgear/fglive-0.1-linuxtag.torrent>

and then open it in BitTorrent -- in mac os x, you just drag  
the .torrent file onto the BitTorrent app's icon -- (and hopefully  
find a seed, there're 3 at the moment).

I've only used BitTorrent to download FGLive so I'm no expert. I  
think the idea is once you've downloaded fglive, you should try to  
keep running BitTorrent for a bit to allow others to grab a copy of  
the fglive cd image you just downloaded. Please don't move or delete  
the image file while your doing this!

I hope this helps...

Best regards,

Ima