You can mount the ISO directly in disk utility. The easiest way is to drag the image icon into the lower panel of the disk listing. Highlight the ISO when it is listed then click the “mount” icon in the toolbar.
Fat32 should work. The biggest issue is marking the slice “bootable” to force it as the prime load candidate. Otherwise we need a boot loader and we don’t want to think about that. I have a headache from just typing “we need a boot loader”.
vic-k! Where’s the bottle!??!!?
In all probability you are many years older than my father.
Mr K. I assure you that your experience will be much simpler. If I recall properly you are using newer hardware. Just make the DVD installer and you will be happier. Maybe.
I use linux because I purchased an awesome Chromebook, the Acer C720, that can run Ubuntu. So, for $250 I got a very good laptop that can run Scrivener and Fade In for my final formatting. Brilliant! Oh, and I switch back to Chromeos for a buttery smooth web experience. I really hope that Scrivener continues to embrace linux because Ubuntu is a very good OS that I think will continue to grow in popularity due to it’s price (free), ease of use, and because it can make budget computers like this C720 really shine.
Essentially, Microsoft told its user base to take a flying leap off a lemming cliff … XP is abandoned, and Win 7 will follow in due course. My older hardware won’t run under Win8+. Stupid waste of $$ to go in that direction as it provides nothing useful in return.
Apple long ago moved beyond my needs. OSX 10.4.11 contains everything to support my essential apps, except internet … which has grown bloated beyond all recognition.
Excellent hardware gotten used via eBay, friends, and recycyle center include mil-spec rugged laptops (IX-260+ with Pentium M) for marine use (WinXP rated) and desktop Compaq S4000T with P4. These do very nicely with Linux: debian variant “SolydX” with XFCE desktop environment.
The progress the Linux folks have made in the last while is unbelievable. It’s come a long way, baby!
With the death of XP, my wife’s two machines became unsafe for internet connections. I installed SolydK (the KDE desktop enviro) as a dual-boot choice. She can use her XP sewing & embroidery software booted into Windows; and reboot into Linux for her browsing and email. Same for her laptop. She was especially thrilled to find hundreds of free Solitaire games on Linux. Color hubby happy!
Scrivener runs just fine as native Linux v. 1.6.1, or as Windows app under Wine. I prefer 32-bit, so avoid lots of problems the 64-bit crowd has experienced.
Linux took a lot of getting used to; there are many app substitutions to make, some to regret, some happy discoveries to make … and a bit of a learning curve. But to go back? No … Microsoft burned the village and took no prisoners; Apple soared away into the clouds. This old dog is happy to roll around in Linux. It’s moving ahead and some software houses are taking notice. IE, Softmaker has a sweet, sweet MS Office alternative that now runs natively on Linux. Softmaker Office 2012. Linux. Native. Sweet. 8)
I use linux because I like it and unlike Apple and Microsoft there is no crapware * and back-door snooper spyware.
Anyone who has a problem with that statement knows nothing about how hardware, firmware and software are integrated under the hood.
Conspiracy theories do not enter the equation , both Microsoft and Google have openly confessed to " co-operating " with the NSA. etc in times past.
Apple cooperated from the very beginning, and while the late Mr.Jobs may have been a genius he was no Aaron Schwartz. He was a very greedy , manipulative man .
Microsoft has openly admitted that the " new " Windows 10 tester has an inbuilt keylogger to track everything you do and by their seeming willingness to acknowledge that publically , they have also openly confessed their intention is to discover how far consumers will permit themselves to be exploited.
As for why switch to Linux?
Microsoft has already answered that with the Windows 10 trial release.
Anyone with a modicum of Linux experience will see some pretty interesting similarities with Linux desktops.In fact, if Linux were a Business model , Microsoft would probably be sued to hell and back.
It reminds me of the old " Who invented Windows-Apple or Microsoft ", controversy that raged when I was growing up.Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Microsoft has attempted with Windows10 to " learn from Linux " in a very, blatent and obvious manner.
That aside,there are very many reasons why I use linux, too many to waste my time posting about.
I was fully trained in the use of Macintosh Computers, back in the days when Quark Express, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop were the only valid choices in the Publishing industry .
I also used them for home use before Apple followed Microsoft down the road of built-in obsolescence to ensure their lecherous dollar-lusting shareholders got a few extra cents in their off-shore tax avoiding accounts.
A brief flirtation with windows soon convinced me that the only way was Linux.
It is not only about freedom of choice and saving money.
It is about integrity. Linux is not just an operating system, and if that is how the originator of this post views things there was never any point to the question, because the answer will not be understood.Linux is, above all, a philosophy - a philosophy built around the concept of absolute openness.Linux gives power to the people ,not to a bunch of corporations.
Billie, I admire your philosophical position. I hope you never spend any time working with linux “behind the scenes” of any major corporation. You may find that Linux isn’t as different from any other OS as you think.
Jaysen,
I would never work for a corporation at any IT level.
I don’t work with ,or for ,control-freaks. My soul is my own .
My comments were intended to make a similar point to yours but from a non-corporate perspective even if the meaning is slightly different.
That is - why does anyone use Windows and imagine -without actually doing their research- that it is in any sense a better maintained or more capable system than Linux?
For a corporate environment of casual users, windows is much better than linux. The technology is meaningless to “casual users”. The teams that support casual users (90% of the computer users) are concerned with usability and reduction of support costs. Windows and Apple win. As valid as your arguments about Linux are from a technical perspective they are irrelevant to 90% of the population.
You may have missed my point though. If you are not building from source you may not be working with the level of “integrity” that you think. Especially if you are using US based dists.
I would suggest that this is a bit … intentionally offensive. It’s a very wide brush you are painting with. As a tech who has advanced a bit, the perception of “control” is pretty myopic. Seriously. Most corps have “lost control” of IT. The issues most folks have with corporate IT and policy in general are rarely the intention of the corporate leadership and are resultant of bad implementation by folks that are on power trips. Folks like me (and possibly you). Often crusaders for a cause with little desire to compromise. It is very easy to over manage when you think you are doing the right thing.
But we have strayed from the topic.
As to linux distros….
I’m less a fan of a specific dist any more. None of them are as intuitive as they need to be. X interfaces though… I prefer KDE for the familiarity to the corp windows world (win prior to 8 ) and mac like control panel. I’m still struggling with gnome. Just can’t get into the effort required to make it work the way I want it to.
