Espionage724 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Ok I'm about to do a triple boot with Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.5.4, and a version of Linux (haven't decided which one though). I have the media for only Vista and OS X. Is there a way to like burn/copy a CD onto a external HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poco Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Is there a way to like burn/copy a CD onto a external HDD? Do you have the cd or not? If not why not just burn one? iPoco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 I don't have any burnable CD's atm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 (edited) You can use thumb drives for installing Linux. But I don't remember wich one has this feature. But why you don't use a media? Ah ok.. I understand. I think Kubuntu have this feature Edited July 20, 2008 by FrankOS_Scripting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 I'm all outta burnable CD's atm.. only media I have is blank DVD's. I remember Ubuntu used to release DVD copies of their OS but I can't find them anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 BTW, burnable is not the word: Blank media is better lol! Try openSUSE 11 on a DVD. Why not, I very love this distro. But take the one with Gnome because KDE 4.2 is good for garbage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 Lol I always liked KDE over Gnome cuz of the look Yea I forgot about openSUSE, I guess i'll go grab a copy of that Still would be nice to know if there was a way to copy a disc image to a external HDD/thumb drive and make it bootable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Lol I always liked KDE over Gnome cuz of the look Yea I forgot about openSUSE, I guess i'll go grab a copy of that Still would be nice to know if there was a way to copy a disc image to a external HDD/thumb drive and make it bootable I like openSuse. And I like the KDE version too. There is a live CD/DVD if you just want to try without installing it to your HDD. http://software.opensuse.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 (edited) I found something interesting for you but the guide is french (cause my first language is french). Let me take some time to translate that and I'll give you more news Easy than from an HDD, it's from a partition on your physical drive hehe Edited July 21, 2008 by FrankOS_Scripting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Ok well that's bad because there are a tons of infos to translate with the good words. You can take a look on the link I left you here. The title is "Installation whitout CD" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin R. Johnson Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 ok http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/DVDs-...u/8.04/release/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/DVDs-...u/8.04/release/ I agree.... try Ubuntu 8.04 to see if you like it.....I am triple booting Vista64, OS X Leopard and Ubuntu 8.04, each on separate HDDs, using EasyBCD 1.72 for convenience..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBrown Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Ubuntu 8.04 is very good but Mint Linux, an offshoot of Ubuntu may be a better option. Mint Linux has a more polished GUI, has rave reviews, and comes preinstalled with necessary codecs so you do not have to spend time downloading codecs (like you do with Ubuntu 8.04) in order to view media, wmv files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Ubuntu 8.04 is very good but Mint Linux, an offshoot of Ubuntu may be a better option. Mint Linux has a more polished GUI, has rave reviews, and comes preinstalled with necessary codecs so you do not have to spend time downloading codecs (like you do with Ubuntu 8.04) in order to view media, wmv files. It is "horses for courses" - at present I use Ubuntu 8.04 because Linux Mint do not have a 64 bit version available yet and I want to be able to access all my 6GB RAM and run 64 bit apps.... Also, on Ubuntu 8.04 to play most common multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD, Flash, Quicktime, WMA and WMV , whether as standalone files or embedded in web pages etc. you can simply open the Terminal, type the following command: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras and you are there..... Or, if graphics/video/audio will be a major part of what you want to do with Linux then you can install 32bit or 64bit 8.04 based Ubuntu Studio from here and discover its capabilities here...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LioNEXT Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 I like openSuse. And I like the KDE version too.There is a live CD/DVD if you just want to try without installing it to your HDD. http://software.opensuse.org/ +1 for OpenSuse11. Its simply amazing desktop GUI and other things. This was my first foray into Linux and I am impressed. Especially the software repositories. Except that, the software support is still weak and whatever is supported, the applications look like if they are from Windows 3.1 era or OS 7. just not that well-designed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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