I purchased a cd with Freespire 2.0 on it. I have tried numerous times to install it on two different computers neither one has any MS stuff on it. One presently has an old version of Mepis on it. Which is the computer that I would prefer to have it on. But any way the screen that prompts you to install never comes up or it just goes right by it. I found instructions to install it and from what I can tell it just goes right past the installation screen and stops at the screen the tells you Welcome you are now running Freespire. But what it is doing is running from the cd. Am I missing something or is that disk messed up. Is there another way that I can install it from that disk?
Thanks
Norm

You paid money for a copy of an old distro? why?? Odd enough downloading an old distro for free, but paying for it? As much as it may be possible to work out what's going on, why bother? Use a current distro.

I only paid $1.97 + shipping. I live in the country cannot get dsl or cable, I have satellite, but that really is not dependable enough for a download like that. besides I would bet on it being a 2 or 3 day download. I'll buy another cd if necessary. At a total of <$6 thats much better for me compared to the hassel of the download.

I agree with acid_kewpie get a current distro...

If you prefer to buy

https://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=17

I would recommend Linux Mint, if only because it supports a lot of non-free media out of the box, which you would otherwise need to download. (Assuming you want to be able to watch commercial DVDs or play a number of video files.)
http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.c...inux/linuxmint

Maybe, but it's still OUT OF DATE. You're clearly aware of the reasons for buying burnt iso's so make you you know what you're buying, not just why you're buying it.

I clicked on the link that acidkewpe had and took their test. that recommended open suse, and now have a cd of open suse coming. the cd i have was really not out of date freespire is only up to 2.0.8 which I believe is the one I bought. as far as mint I don't watch dvd's or videos anyway. I have a dvd player for my tv, and not everyone can get high speed internet so i can't watch videos either. I want to run my business, find a cad program and do some designing, on it and do some surfing. seeing that open suse is sponsored by novel it sounded like the best choice. Thanks

Regardless of the out of date issue, Freespire was hands-down one of the worst distros I ever tried.

Distrowatch has lots of links for people selling CDs and DVDs.

By out of date, we don't mean not the most recent release, but that the project is dead, or at least dormant, and their last release is some 3 years old.

Looks like I get stuck on that one. Good thing I didn't spend much on it. Looks like I should done some research first. I hope I took the right way this time getting open suse. Does anyone know where I could find a decent 3d cad program. Thanks Norm

http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/UTILlinks.html
http://www.varicad.com/en/home/
http://linuxappfinder.com/graphics/cad