Hi Samuel! 10 Dec 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Firts of all the normal dualboot install procedure: Install DOS/win/nt whatsoever in a partition. create linux bootdisk install linux with disks (or CD boot if supported) let linux install programm guide you through the partitioning and the installation of the bootloader. -> ready you have a working dualboot system PS: steps before create linux bootdisks are optional :) SH> According to the book you can install Caldera OpenLinux directly SH> from the CD-ROM only if you can boot to the CD-ROM. Than the book is simply wrong. Buy a better one. If you don't believe me (I have written this already at least once) than maybe you believe caldera: http://www.caldera.com/support/docs/openlinux/3.1/OLinstallD/bgbbfied.html SH> Otherwise you have to install Windows NO !!!!!! no way Think of it ... you need windows ($$$$) to install linux ?!? Caldera would have been shot by linus torvalds, alan cox, steven tweedy, ....... and than the whole linux kernel mailinglist members would come and beat up all caldera employes. SH> Also you have to install Windows in order to install a program named SH> BootMagic so that it will write a boot loader onto the MBR. NO !!!! Linux comes with at least one bootmanager (LILO and most new distris include also GRUB) If your book states so much nonsens you *REALLY* should consider throuing it into the trash. SH> me, but the book doesn't offer any suggestions for work-arounds. book -> trash SH> As I am a complete newbie to Linux I can't yet figure out a SH> work-around for avoiding the need to first install Windows. boot from the bootdisk (haven't I already stated so ?) SH> I am astonished that Caldera's OpenLinux package doesn't tell the user SH> how to do this. Why do you use caldera ?!? many people think it is crap (including me) PS: it tells you a search that took ca. 5 seconds brought up this: ---- 2.1. Creating Boot Floppies If you do not have a bootable CD-ROM drive, you must create boot floppies to perform the installation. The boot floppies can be created on a running Linux system or on a DOS or Windows system. ---- SH> A problem remains in that I can't get rid of the wincrap, LFNs, and SH> empty Windows directories, etc. I don't get it. I have never had such problems. And I have often delted, killed LFN dirs/files. You are doing somehting VERY strangely. In win95 boot into dos (f8) goto c:\ deltree *.* -> y on prompts away is everything including LFNs really not hard to do, is it ?!? SH> LFNs are one of the worst bugs in the Windows system. They were SH> invented most probably for the purpose of causing much aggravation and SH> consternation for people who like to work within DOS. No it was a contribution for people not liking repma983.txt they want report of the marketing for 1998 march 05.txt SH> Windows 3.1 was compatible with DOS and it didn't use LFNs. so is win95. as long as you don't use hdd low level utilities, you should not bother. win95 provides correct short filenames for eveery LFN. And people did not want to be limited by 8 char names. (my commodore 64 allowed 16 char names ...) SH> Sam Heywood CU, Ricsi -- |~)o _ _o Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> {ICQ: 7659421} (PGP) |~\|(__\| -=> (A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (S)elfDestruct 30 SECONDS <=-
