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>Did you actually create (or copy) a DVD using BL?

did I actually make the dvd in BasicLinux? No sir. I made it using a
CentOS64 (fairly recent build admittedly)

>I spent three days looking for an actual iso of the 2011 version to 
>download for free. Found 2008 version as an iso. 215MB 2011 version (as 
>iso?) for pay. Why would someone convert an iso to 1-3 rar's that are 
>nearly three times as large? Maybe to make money for downloads? But the 
>bittorrent is also 563MB and is free. Can you find microXP 2011 iso free?

I must decline - but perhaps someone else :) 

>> You know - if you get stuff - like I tried to get to BasicLinux iBiblio
>> today (the link in this mailing list) and got a ibiblio 404 page with
>> every translation of file not found known to man LOL...
>
>One of the BL3.5 links (that comes with BL3.5 links menu) still works.

Cool! 


>ftp://jegas.net/archives/os/Linux/BasicLinux has BL1 3.2 3.4 and 3.5
>You have about 10 linuxes including Ubuntu and Puppy.
>I am using BL2 with SW11 library updates and can therefore use Slackware 
>7 or later (through 11) isolinux.

>> ftp://jegas.net/archives/os/Linux/BasicLinux/
>>
>> I hope this post was at least somewhat helpful Sindi!
>> --Jason

LOL - Yeah - like I said - trying to save some bandwidth. I have 500
gigs of files downloaded from the internet, some years years old -
because of that very thing: What's? It's been moved? Or worse? LOL


>I will give it a try. Would 563MB of files compress to 218MB of iso?
Hard to say. Not outside the realm of possibilities if say a linux
install is loaded with text, source, man pages etc. Text stuff
compresses very well due to many unused bits that compression puts to
good use.

Jason P Sage