On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:34:14 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:43:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:26:16 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
>> wrote:

>>> Hi Cristian!

>>> 11 Dec 2001, Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>> CB> I am astonished by this method Caldera has chosen in order to install
>>> CB> Linux. Red Hat is able to install itself on an empty disk, containing
>>> CB> all the tools necessary to partition it.

>>> So does Caldera :)))

>> Yep, no problem. :)

>> To install from the OpenLinux CD when booted into DOS (any flavor)

>> After loading your CD drivers run the DOS install bat file.

>> r:\col\launch\dos\install.bat
>> ^change to the drive letter of your CD

> Will the DOS install batch file also run a patitioning program for
> you so that you can install OpenLinux?

> And how do I install a boot loader program?  In order to install
> the boot loader program BootMagic that comes on the CD I have to
> first install Windows.  After I install the boot loader, BootMagic,
> I can install DR-DOS by booting to a DR-DOS system floppy and
> running "sys c:".  Then I can boot to either DR-DOS or OpenLinux.
> The problem is that I can't get rid of all the residual wincrap
> because neither DR-DOS nor WIN95 DOS will delete the LFNs.

> Sam Heywood

> Does the CD have a DOS Boot loader

All of the above will be done by Linux.

That install.bat file loads Linux.

This is the file......

.\loadlin .\vmlinuz initrd=.\initrd.gz vga=274 debug=2

That's right.... one line.

>From this moment on, you are no longer in DOS.... you're in Linux.


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