I believe the user is instructed to take this kind of D-tour combo install in order to minimize the fear of messing up everything :-). As long as a sane Linux installation is obtained, it's OK for me
Assuming one has got the following to deal with: - A bare hard-disk (no OS on it) - A non bootable CD-ROM - A Linux boot disk created with rawrite then everything should solved by the Linux distro installation program. And this approach seems to be considered by that book, not so encouraging for the potentially new users to take. The reason? It was simpler for the author of the book to describe a method working in almost any cases, than to dig into every distro's install interface :-))) if only you chosed to rely on the installation instructions on the CD (they *MUST* be there) instead of those from that book (I am joking:-))) Cristian Burneci On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > 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/ > > ------------------------------ >
