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miriam · Posted: Thu 20 May 2010, 04:04 Post subject:

Thanks Tony. I'll mention that to him... though he'll probably want to start off with something less challenging.

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 265 Location: Montreal.ca

Hi Miriam,

I must admit that I started off with the game as a "shootemup" and later settled for just circuits and bumps on the old ww1 aircraft.

Regards Tony

miriam · Posted: Thu 20 May 2010, 23:03 Post subject:

Woo hoo! I just finished downloading the slackware binaries and they work perfectly.
http://packages.flightgear.org.uk/slackware-12.2/
That is for version FlightGear 2 and I'm using it on Puppy 3.0.1.

I had previously tried to compile FlightGear, but had some trouble, however in doing that I also downloaded and compiled SimGear http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/simgear/downloads.html. If the slackware binaries don't work for other people (they work on mine) then you might need SimGear too... however, I kinda doubt you'll need it.

I'll try to download the FlightPup liveCD iso again today (the download failed yesterday, part way through). When I have that I'll be able to demonstrate it on anybody's machine without having to install it. Thanks again to CatDude for uploading the FlightPup iso.

CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1355 Location: UK

Hello miriam

If you are having trouble downloading via the browser, then use wget instead.

Open ROX-Filer and go to the directory where you save your downloads,
then open a terminal in that directory and use the following command:

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2943 Location: Sydney Australia

http://www.2shared.com/file/QsFPYDTC/FlightPup-v1.html

Bottom of page...>>> Save file to your PC: click here

Chris.

miriam · Posted: Fri 21 May 2010, 06:20 Post subject:

Hi CatDude. Yep, that's what I used, though without the '-c' to continue. I'll try continuing what I downloaded earlier and see if it gets the rest. Thanks for the suggestion. I much prefer wget rather than browser downloading because it is much more reliable. I was very surprised when it didn't get the whole thing.

Cool! cthisbear has uploaded it too. Good on ya. Smile

miriam · Posted: Fri 21 May 2010, 20:27 Post subject:

CatDude, I continued the download using wget last night and checked it with md5sum. It showed bad checksum. So I downloaded it again. This time wget made it all the way through. However when I ran md5sum on that it also checked out as bad.

Are you sure the checksum is correct?
Both my downloads show md5sum value of:

John Lewis · Posted: Thu 27 May 2010, 08:05 Post subject:

Miriam,
If you've not got this to work yet, Pm me with an address and I'll post you a CD. I'm in West Aus so it shouldn't take too long.

John

miriam · Posted: Fri 28 May 2010, 02:52 Post subject:

Hi John. Nope I haven't got it to work. I would be very grateful if you could do that. I'll pay for the postage. I'll pm you...

aracnachid · Joined: 26 May 2010 Posts: 27 Location: Aotearoa

I have the same problem as miriam.

Have downloaded from two different locations and after writing to cd it gives me invalid or corrupt kernal image error Sad

.

Any ideas? Or can I order a live cd that works from somewhere?

CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1355 Location: UK

Hi

@ miriam
So sorry for not responding sooner, but i have only just seen your post.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: South Australia

CatDude I can provide you with an FTP account on smokey01.com if you like

CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1355 Location: UK

Hello smokey01

miriam · Posted: Thu 08 Jul 2010, 19:55 Post subject:

aracnachid, I'd be happy to post you the FlightPup CD along with another disk containing the iso, as John Lewis kindly did for me.

Just PM me your postal address and I'll try to pop it in the mail today.

Ummm... that goes for anyone else who has had difficulty downloading it too.

miriam · Posted: Thu 08 Jul 2010, 20:06 Post subject:

CatDude, thanks for the thought. I appreciate it. I now have the iso though, thanks to John Lewis posting the disk(s) to me via snail-mail.

I will pass on that favor to anyone who asks.