Download Simply MEPIS

First download an ISO file from one of the mirrors:
http://www.mepis.org/node/1462

Once you have a Mepis ISO file saved on your computer, open Nero 6 and choose "Disc Image or Saved Project", now browse to the folder where you saved the ISO file. Use the drop-down list labelled "Files of type" to select "Image Files (*.nrg;*.iso;*.cue)".
Once you have that selected your ISO file should show up - select the ISO file you downloaded and select "Open".
That should take you to the "Image Recording" window in Nero, select a safe writing speed, (I use cheap CD-R media, so I burn ISO's at no more than 8x speed).
If it works - you now have a Bootable Live-CD, which you can leave in the CD drive when you reboot your computer.
Once you reboot, you will have a Linux Operating system running on your computer to play with - untill you reboot without the Mepis CD.
Just don't install Mepis until you understand how/what that means.
Play around in the Mepis Operating System for awhile untill you're sure you want to keep it. Then come back and ask about installing it for keeps!
Good Luck, hope that answers your question

This will be a sticky at the top of the new user thread.

Joe Pearce

The student is not above the teacher
The servant is not above the master
The student shares the teacher's fate
The servant shares the master's

http://www.joepearce.com

Thanks lenbro - have downloaded the ISO file (too rather a long time on dial-up!). Burned the ISO image to CD using Nero 6 et voila! now have another ISO image on CD.
What did I do wrong?

From Mepis How-tos: http://www.mepis.org/node/1326
Nero Burning ROM
Select the Burn Image feature before selecting the iso file.

If you are using an older version of Nero, you may have to change the extention from iso to nrg.

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Post questions on www.mepislovers.org too -- very helpful community

Thanks Adrian - have now created the bootable MEPIS and ran it on my desktop COMPAQ with an old(er) VGA monitor. It seemed to go through most of the checks OK but failed on a few at the end...but that's a subject of a new post that I'll start in INSTALLING MEPIS posts (monitor related). I'm getting more interested as I progress....

It is normal for some things to fail during startup...some hardware is not on every system...if a process looks for a certain piece of hardware and it is not used on your system it will say failed...normally not anything to be concerned about unless that hardware is indeed on your system and not being initialized properly.

C V Noyes

Who/what is NERO? More to the point, now that I have the ISO, now what?

Now you have the .iso you need to burn it at slow speed (x8) and as an image file to a cd. Nero is a program running on Windoze that does it. maybe you have another cd burning program.

anticapitalista

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

Hi Anticapitalista,

How do you understand this http://www.mepis.org/node/10606 ?

Does that mean that Warren finally GPLed his scripts?

Kind regards,

VS

PS: did you see the new debianhelp site? its neat!

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Motto: chown -R linux:GNU world
Distros: Debian-Sarge, Damn Small Linux

Well there goes the kitchen sink when it comes to
showing off the live cd!!!

Xmms and Realplayer still play mp3's without lame and liblame

The main reason I and everyone else I talked into using Mepis
was because first and foremost....it played

mp3's and mpeg video

It's nice that it has w32codes already implimented in
Kafiene by default...but wow my library of 10 zillion Pron
just went south....all in mpeg LOL.......

Hey while Im here and whining anyone know where to go get
w32codecs with an actual repsitory entry...for all these
3.4-3 systems im doing up ?

Since it's no longer coming up under fatboy or nerim
anylonger..???

Change the nerim entry in Synaptic to:

http://debian-multimedia.org/
etch
main

I'm about to download one of the disc images from the mirror ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/released/ and I was wondering what the difference is between the distribution labelled with i386 and the one without. Just making sure I get the right one for me!

You want SimplyMEPIS_6.0, the difference is the version, both are i386 and are for IBM compatable computers(Intel & AMD), don't forget to check the md5sum, that's why it's there.

regards,
Bad Dog
SimplyMEPIS 6.0 - kernel 2.6.15-26-686-SMP - KDE 3.5.3

what do you mean by "check the md5sum"... i think this might be a stupid question... what does the stuff in that file mean?

Take a look here: www.mepislovers-wiki.org/index.php?title=New_User_Guide .

regards,
Bad Dog
SimplyMEPIS 6.0 - kernel 2.6.15-26-686-SMP - KDE 3.5.3

I d/l MEPIS 6.0 ISO, burned it to CD and it worked fine in Live CD mode. Did the same (I thought) with the SimplyMEPIS ISO, but it doesn't boot. Same situation on two very different PCs. Yes, the CD is in the boot priority list before the HD. :\

I can browse the ISO with ISOBuster and see three different file systems. I then extracted the Joliet version and see a SimplyMEPIS folder and a Bootable CD folder. Is there something I can do with these to make a bootable CD without having to resort to floppy boot?

TIA! - MN

I'm not sure what are you talking about, what you call "MEPIS 6.0 ISO" is SimplyMEPIS, what OTHER SimplyMEPIS did you download?

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mepisnewbie, you need to burn the iso as an IMAGE just as you did with the 6.0 version. You can't just copy it, like a file, to the CD and burn that. I have not tested the 3.4.3 version lately, but 1) Where did you download it from, and 2) Did you verify the md5sum of the downloaded image to be sure that you got the whole thing?

Next, when you do the burn, do it at a slow speed (<= 8x) and to a CD-R, not CD-RW.

Jon

The folder within the ISO says "SimplyMEPIS_3.4-", so I believe there is more than one version with that moniker.

mepisnewbie, you don't need to open the ISO, you need to burn it in it's entirety. If you open the file, you run the risk of corrupting it.

Again, where exactly did you get the file from as it is possible that you got a messed up file. Please give me a link and I will go and see if I can download it and verify it. Also, if you can find the md5sum from the same place you got it, and compare it to the downloaded iso file, they should be the same.

Jon

Yes but SimplyMEPIS 6.0 is the last one (there's a 6.1 but that's a DVD).
You said that 6.0 is working, right? Why do you need another?
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Nero can be, or using it, a pain. Easier is CDburnerXP. It's free, of quality, and you simply select "Burn CD/DVD from ISO" and let'er rip.

Guad I hate windows. Sorry all been outa the loop to long but I have a BIG problem I got Point and Click Linux and installed it but now I cant seem to get the newer version every time I try and down load it it crashes I just need to know how to send in the money for the new CD I know some have tried to help me with this but to no end I have an everex system with a 2.1 gig Athlon 64 processor and it just keeps getting slower and slower I have turned every thing off but it just keeps crashing and when I try to download anything bigger than 100 megs it resets the connections. come on ppl what am I supposed to do Back in the day I was a computer guru that everyone came to but now I can't seem to find my own files guad I feel like I have Alshimers! Please Help

So, OldTimers disease has struck.
I think you need to visit the Mepis Store http://www.mepis.org/store
and choose a new version.
Those ones for pre-order will still have you waiting, so choose a ready to go one.

Well, I wouldn't post this if the Mepis store had one ready to go, but you might want to go to www.osdisc.com and check it out. Good luck!