Icaros

[curtis]

Okay, please excuse my stupidity, but I gotta ask.

Is Icaros a standalone OS?

I was tinkering with it last night and was trying to install it on a new hard drive on a spare laptop I've got and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to install.

I built the Live disk and it runs fine on my Windows Vista (yeah, yeah, I know!) as a task, but I can't seem to get the danged disk to boot on the laptop.

Help would be appreciated.

Curtis

[curtis]

Hmm, curioser and curioser.

I know the drive works because I booted a Ubuntu install disk with no problems.

However, the .iso file I burned gives me a invalid boot disk.  May have to download again and give it another shot.

Thanks for the comeback BL.

[curtis]

I knew that, but it suddenly occurred to me, the drive on the laptop is just a CD.

CRAP!   Talk about a rookie mistake.  Maybe I should turn my A+ certification in humiliation.

Ah well, guess I'll have to some fancy footwork with partitioning and install from a partition.  That or spend some more bucks to find a DVD for this old Armada E500.

Curtis

I seem to recal the icaros iso is actually a DVD... Am I right? So you need a DVD-R or DVD+R or a DVD+-RW depending on your burner an boot drive... The DVD spec is a mess

[curtis]

Again, may I suggest people wait for Icaros 1.2.5 which is only a few days away.

It will be vastly superior and 1.2.4 did have a few installation issues.

Now that I've got 1.2.4 Light downloaded and was getting ready to party this weekend!

Oh well, may try 1.2.4 and see how it goes.

Curtis