Hi Sam and all,
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:53:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> According to the book you can install Caldera OpenLinux directly
> from the CD-ROM only if you can boot to the CD-ROM. Otherwise you
> have to install Windows in order to install Partition Magic so that
> you can partition your hard drive for installing OpenLinux. Also
> you have to install Windows in order to install a program named
> BootMagic so that it will write a boot loader onto the MBR. There
> are probably some work-arounds to avoid this hassle. Maybe there
> are some DOS programs or some Linux programs that can do this for
> me, but the book doesn't offer any suggestions for work-arounds.
there is a DOS version of Partition Magic which works very well. There
are also DOS progs to read/ write a boot sector from /to disk, i.e. Ch.
Hochstaetters readboot.exe. It works like this:
READBOOT-Read/Write Boot-Sector from/to File V1.10
Copyright (c) 1988 - 1989, Christoph H. Hochst�tter
Syntax Error.
Syntax is: READBOOT <drive>: <file> (write Boot-Sector to file)
READBOOT <file> <drive>: (read Boot-Sector from file)
Exapmles: READBOOT A: C:\DISKS\BOOT1.SYS
READBOOT C:\DISKS\BOOT1.SYS A:
To delete "undeletable" files I use this methode (don't know if it works
with wincrap but it's worth a try I guess).
Find out the DOS names of the undeletable files. Win9x usually keeps the
first 5 letters of the LFN, adds a ~ and a two digit number and keeps
the extension.
Run Your favorite disk editor and overwrite the first letter of the dir
entry with the ASCII 229 character (DOS does the same when deleting a
file).
Exit the editor and run chkdsk. It will report lost clusters. Choose not
to save them into files.
Voila.
Good luck.
Regards Joerg
PS.: I like the GEOS file system which offers filenames up to 32
characters long. These names are stored in the header of the GEOS file.
DOS filename is first 8 chars (not DOS conform stuff is replaced by
underscores) and a 3 digit number as extension. Long name of a GEOS dir
is stored in a file named dirinfo.000.
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