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<P align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Hi!</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>OK - I've been lurking this list
long enough and I think it is about time I delurked! I'd sign up for the moot on
the 28th only I'm already booked for then. What date is the next one and/or the
BCF at Charmandean, and I'll try and come along?</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Anyhow, on to the reason I
post:</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I'm having a problem with an
installation and I wondered if someone could help? I'm no Linux wizard but I
appreciate the open source logic! I've got an aging Win98 machine that just
crashes as soon as you look at it and I thought giving it a decent OS might give
it a new spell of life, as it were.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I downloaded ISOs for Fedora 5, which my
reading suggested was the most appropriate distro for the likely use of the
machine, and when I sha1sum them I get the right checksums. But when I try to
install the media check rejects 3 out of 5 of the burnt discs as corrupt. Is
there a way of checking if the corruption has occured in the burn or if the
problam is in the old machines hardware? Should I try and reburn the discs,
proceed with the install regardless or replace the CD drive?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>John</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>PS I've noticed that some mail to this list
comes in the form of an .asc and .txt attachment and that while I can read the
txt from my PC it is a total pain from webmail (which due to circumstances
beyond my control I often have to use). Can those who do so (or anyone else, of
course!) please (a) explain why their mail clients are so exclusive and (b)
suggest ways of reading the messages if doomed to using Webmail from a M$
machine?</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>