Installing Slackware

[Acidkewl]

Lastnight i downloaded the slackware-8.1-iso from telia.dl.sourceforge.net and when it was done downloading it was not in .iso but .iso..iso and so i burned a CD containing it then renamed it with the .iso extention and burned another copy and i was wondering if this has happened to anyone else, why it happens, and which i should use to install slackware if it makes a difference.

[element-x]

What did you use to download it?

I've noticed some browsers like to "detect" the file type and then add the extension themselves.

[Acidkewl]

Internet Explorer

[furrycat]

If you're stuck on Windows use a program like Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.com/) to mount the image on a virtual drive. That way you can see very quickly if it really is an ISO image containing an ISO image (0.00000001% likely) or IE being stupid...

With a Linux machine to hand you can do it without special software: mount -o loop,ro /path/to/the.iso /mnt/cdrom

[X_console]

You're probably better off downloading the iso with an FTP client. Either use the command line version that comes with Windows, or download one. Personally I prefer WS_FTP LE for Windows. Make sure you download it as a binary file. At least with an FTP client, it won't mess with the extensions or anything else weird.