Re: Confusion

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:03:35PM -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote:
> I have used GNU Linux for years - trying out several distros, all by
> downloading the Iso file and writing to CD. Ubuntu, Slackware, Puppy,
> and Gnewsense all install just fine after simply right-clicking on the
> file and selecting write to CD. No clever stuff with the terminal -
> just point and click. But this time it just doesn't work.
> 
> For those who didn't notice, I downloaded the file twice, making two
> CD's from the first download and one from the second - just in case
> anything was corrupted. All the CD's can be opened and their contents
> displayed - and all files in readable form can be read.
> 
> I would happily stay with Gnewsense but since I recently installed the
> latest version, I can't get a couple of much used applications that
> worked perfectly with the previous version to run. So I thought I'd
> try Debian instead, using exactly the same process, on the same
> machine, that I used to successfully install Gnewsense.
> 
> This is not rocket science. It's not an abstruse technical problem -
> it must be plain old dumbass misunderstanding by me.
> 
> Doesn't anyone have a simple answer?

What is the question?

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