I installed corel linux on a syquest removable (/dev/hdd) on an old
computer.
It missed my network card entirely, and I didn't see any quick way of
getting it shoved in. It also destroyed the lilo on the mbr of /dev/hda,
and the machine was unbootable.
I booted using an install floppy and gave the kernel the new root and a
blank initrd (linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=) After that I redid lilo and
put the corel kernel on my hda /boot partition.
Corel will probably not properly work on very large drives that go over
the 1024 cylinder limit when using LBA. The boot kernel was in root, and
put in the main partition with the rest of the code. This makes upgrades
problematic.
However, it was a very compact install (for linux). I don't consider it
ready for prime time. They need to put better access to the
documentation. I had to use zcat to get to the /usr/doc text, and no
viewer I could see on their menus or html help let me at it within the
first 30 minutes or so.
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