On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, David Jones wrote:
Knoppix works very well. I use it by booting from CD, also have a system here running Knoppix installed on the hard drive. Don't know how much space on such a CD XFractint might need, but the Knoppix CD is already crammed full so some stuff would have to come off. But for a purpose-built XFractint "Linux distro" - you couldn't start with anything better!
I'm not sure how to burn ISO imajes with Windows XP (XCDRoast is quite new to me, too, but I've managed to use it for burning fractals), but if you come up with a disk, then maybe a web page of links to tarballs would be of use to me when I'm borrowing the neighbour's bandwidth. (Windows XP [even when it's running Mozilla] tends to drop both FTP and HTTP connections that are dragged and _dropped_ directly to the folder for CD burning, but it can still be done by dragging and dropping to a temporary folder, than dragging THAT to the folder for burning optic storage.) The bootstrap might preferably be a script for the burn, which seems to make it almost necessarily a multi-session CD. I would download a little script on a floppy for the first session under Linux, burn that, then drag and drop the rest of the packages onto the CD with Winduz. If I RTFM, then I might figure out how to do it as an ISO under Winduz, but now that I think about it, I might not want to. Like, maybe I want a font editor for Type 1 fonts and you don't even know where one is (and each session of a multi-session has about 13meg of overhead). Plus, for your own benefit as a likelihood, and perhaps even mine regarding the bandwidth I could consume with simultaneous connections to multiple servers, a page of links to the packages takes up a whole lot less space than an imaje of those packages. _______ Murphy's Corollary: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.