robert.hoisington - software and links

MAGICISO - A good free windows program (at least the trial version is) to burn small .iso files to cd and .img files to floppy disks is MagicISO , although, the free version won't let you burn an image more than like 300MB. This is fine though because the current Debian CD netinstall image is only 175MB.

FileZilla - A great free windows program (completely free) for running an FTP server on a windows machine is FileZilla. I used this (the server) so that I could use wget from the linux machine to get files on my windows machine (file sharing between different operating systems).

gzip.exe and tar.exe - These are both free little windows command line utilities that let you do tar and zip files on windows. tar.exe was especially handy trying to transfer files between windows and linux because the file systems don't save files in a compatible format ... Basically when I tried to directly wget picture files from the windows filezilla ftp server, they wouldn't be in a format that the linux frame could read. So, I installed tar.exe, ran the tar command on the whole folder that the pictures were in and then did my wget. When I untarred the folder on the linux frame my pictures were recognized : ) You can get these utilities from cgi-interactive as well as manuals for how to use them. Once you download these utilities just make sure that you copy them to your C:\Windows directory so that the path is right for running them from the windows command line (at least on windows xp).

putty.exe - Putty.exe is an awesome open source ssh client for windows. If you've ever used telnet or ssh its super easy. If not, its pretty easy to figure out. Run it on your windows machine and put in the IP address of your frame (assuming you got your pcmcia ethernet card hooked up and properly configured) as the destination... no sweat.