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I'm sorry, I keep forgetting which mail service does only HTML e-mail and 
which ones allow you to choose straight ASCII text or HTML.  As you say, on 
Mr. Moberg's website there are two downloadable files, one is a true ISO 
file, BL3.ISO which is CD-ROM burnable as is.  The other is a image file of 
BL2.10 which needs to be processed by MKISOFS to convert it to a burnable ISO 
file.  If you follow the thread in the BL mail archive you will find that 
someone has already done this and posted the file for download.  Thats why I 
later posted a message saying "nevermind".  I found that already converted 
file and downloaded it.  Works fine.
      
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> triples email length and triggered my spam filter. 
> Click Compose, compose, uncheck RTF/HTML. 
> 
> fastmail.fm sends plain text, is faster and works with all BL browsers. 
> Opera 9.63 will not access AOL mail (earlier versions will). 
> 
> David Moberg's website has two image files. I also don't understand what 
> they are. Is the first of these already a 'raw' image that can be burned 
> directly to CD? Maybe David could make it clearer for newbies. 
> 
> bl3iso.zip 'bl3iso is the BL3.32 floppy disk edition, modified to fit in 
> one 2.88M disk image. The disk image is inside of an El Torito bootable 
> ISO image' 
> 
> bl2-iso.zip 'BL2 ramdisk in a 2.88MB bootfloppy image. Use mkisofs to 
> make it into an ISO CD image.' 
> 
> Which of these are you after? 
> 
> To burn image files to CD with cdrecord: 
> 
> BL archives - links, BL site, BasicLinux Support, Searching the archive 
> 
> cdrecord in BL requires a scsi kernel (the 'big' kernel) or else 
> three scsi modules because the software was written for scsi not ide 
> burners, and add to the loadlin line hdc=ide-scsi (for cd-rom drive hdc). 
> 
> insmod ide-cd 
> insmod scsi_mod (skip the three middle modules if using scsi kernel) 
> insmod sr_mod 
> insmod sg 
> insmod ide-scsi 
> 
> cdrecord dev=0,0,0 filename.img 
> 
> I use this method to burn downloaded .raw image files of Ultimate Boot CD. 
> 
> > I found the zip file in Mr. Moberg's website. After unzipping you get a 
> > img file that needs to be processed by mkisofs. I have tried to figure 
> > out how to use this utility with no result. I have read thru the MAN 
> > pages and also other info on the internet but I can't figure out what to 
> > do. Apparently mkisofs just creates a iso file, you also need cdrecord 
> > (I think) to write the iso to a CD. I'm not sure about this El Torito 
> > type boot CD. Can anyone show what commands are needed to make mkisofs 
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I found the zip file in Mr. Moberg's website.  After unzipping you= 
> [rest of your message removed - I left this to show what is happening]. 
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