Hi Samuel!
10 Dec 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> First I fdisked and formatted the hard drive by using DOS. Then I
SH> installed DOS on it so that I could install Windows from DOS. The
SH> only reason why I installed Windows on it was so that I could then
SH> install OpenLinux on it. The book doesn't describe how you can
SH> install Linux from DOS except for the case where you can boot to the
SH> CD-ROM drive. My system does not allow booting to the CD-ROM drive.
than you simply make a linux bootdisk, and boot from it.
The result is the same as booting directly from the linux CD.
>> If your computer can boot from CD-ROM do so.
>> If not, than make a bootdisk (rawhide bootdisk.img <I don't know the
>> exact name of the disk image>) boot from it, and there you are
SH> After installing DOS and before installing Windows I did that in order
SH> to make a bootable Linux floppy.
installing DOS/windows/whatsovere was completely useless.
SH> I did succeed in booting to Linux and accessing the CD-ROM drive from
SH> there. After I got into the CD-ROM drive I tried to figure out how to
SH> partition my hard drive to prepare it for a Linux installation. The
SH> book doesn't describe how to partition the hard drive for Linux by
SH> using a Linux program. The book says I should use a Windows program
SH> named Partition Magic which was on the CD-ROM drive. I had to install
SH> Windows in order to install Partition Magic.
you don't need partition magic.
buy a new book :)) <g>
honestly.
ALL linuxes can start linux fdisk when installing.
And most linux versions come also with a 'user friendly' graphic tool.
Partition magic could be only handy, if you have a huge windows partition,
and want to make it smaller, and create a new linux partition from the now
empty space.
The FIPS utility can do the same, and comes with all (?) versions of linux.
(it is IMHO a DOS program)
SH> If there were a DOS program on the CD-ROM drive for partitioning the
SH> hard drive for Linux I would not have had to have installed Windows.
the linux install process does this for you !
The only problem where manual help is needed is if there is no empty space
on the hdd.
Than you need to shrink one of your existing partitions.
SH> Also if there were a Linux partitioning program on the CD-ROM drive I
SH> would not have had to have installed Windows.
there is !!!!!!!
>> SH> I am very puzzled as to why Caldera would have produced a CD-ROM
>> SH> for installing Linux from Windows instead of from DOS.
>> I personally don't like caldera linux ...
>> it is very 'graphic'
SH> I also found it indeed very graphic. The GUI for it known as KDE
SH> works a lot like Windows. I think there is a way to get to a
SH> command-line box from there, but I haven't learned how yet.
simply start a terminal. (there should be even an icon in the k bar)
Or you can simply change the default runlevel, so that you end up in the
command line instead of X when booting.
SH> Please don't explain. I think I will be able to figure out this part
SH> on my own.
too late
PS: booting a win95 bootdisk.
Win 95's DOS 7 can't do long filenames.
It needs windows running, so that you can use LFNs.
(they rely on a Windows API)
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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