On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 05:55:50 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001/Mon, 7 Jan 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" wrote:
> ------------snip--------------- >>> Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>>> BTW, I wish someone would write a book on "Linux for Dummies" >>>> that would be just as easy to understand and just as informative >>>> as the dummies' books for DOS and Windows. >> I already have the one entitled "Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours" >> from SAMS publishing. This is the one which comes with the >> Caldera Systems OpenLinux CD-ROM. This is the one that tells you >> how to install Linux from Windows 95. > Sam, > ah...I just noticed in my "LINUX: The Complete Reference, 3rd Ed" which > comes with the complete OpenLinux 2.2 on CDROM, that they DO call for > using Wingedoze to make the "install" and "modules" disks....but...then > ....the next paragraph...they tell you how to do this in DOS...and the > distros should be pretty much the same...so.... <snip> Yes, they do tell you all that; however, they don't provide a DOS program for partitioning your hard drive and preparing it for installing Linux. Also they don't tell you about how to install any multi-boot loaders from DOS. Being a newbie to Linux, and being the dummy that I am, I felt forced to install all this stuff from Windows. After I did all that I deleted all the wincrap and installed DOS. > For LIZARD install; > x: <enter> - X: is your CDROM drive > cd col > cd launch > cd floppy (x:\col\launch\floppy\ ) > rawrite install.144 (have two formated 1.44Mbyte floppies ready) > rawrite modules.144 <snip> I did prepare a Linux boot floppy by using the rawrite program. This was necessary because my CD-ROM drive is not bootable. I was successful in installing Linux and setting up the machine to boot to either Linux or DOS. I just hated the part about having to install Windows first because I would have much rather preferred to have performed the whole installation from DOS. There probably is a way for smart guys to do it in the preferable way, but there is no way for dummies like me to do it in the smart way. The problem with the manual is that it assumes that you like to start out by doing Windows. I don't want to start out that way because I have questions about where I want to go tomorrow. I already know where I want to go today. Since I want to go to the world without walls I have no use for Windows. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
