On Mon, 29 May 2000, ll wrote about, Re: LINUX installation problem:
> Thanks but i already have 20.4 GB hdd so it's
> ok.
Then indeed you are lucky, but there again i suppose its a
IDE disk which cost far less than a SCSI, but thats another story.
>
> so u r saying i don't need the lizard installation
> diskettes? but i don't have a cd-r. and don't be
> jealous of my 20.4 gig cuz i got it from the money i
> have been saving for months. what i mean is, i don't
> have money even to go to a computer shop and give them
> that little money to have an iso burned to a cd.
I at this point am not saying that, i said you dont need bootmagic, what
ever that is. That is what i said, of course if caldera have intorduced
some sort of magic program which can install an iso image of a H/D then
maybe you will need it.
>
> By the way, of course i know u can't boot from
> iso :� . i burned it to my hdd, then copied the
> contents of it to a folder. all that 650 MB. -BUT- i
> created the installation diskettes ,using the -virtual
> cd rom, and NOT from the folder i copied the install
> content. now u'll say go and create it from that
> folder u copied it to,and then try again. But that
> folder does not autorun naturally. and that lizard
> install is not an exe so that i could launch it from
> the folder.
AFAIK one burns a "iso-image" to a cdrom an NOT to a H/D, or -hdd- as you
call it.
>
> So, i want to install it from the folder. and
> from what u say it is possible to install without the
> lizard diskettes. So how can i do that?
I belive there is software which converts an iso image to a normal
distribution directory, i remember a mail a while ago explaining that,
check the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
>
> PS: i have 1 primary ,3 logical drives. win98 and win
> 2k are installed at 2. so 2 are free.Win98 and win 2k
> are installed on logical drives. And surely i want to
> install Caldera to the primary drive. so why i said
> this,is,if something that would be a risk that it
> could overwrite my data, drop it. cuz i don't have
> data on primary. just boot content u know.
When installing the distribution called slackware, there are chooises for
installing from a "Hard Drive", one needs to type the exacht location of
the ditectory containg the installation source, and the installation source
needs to be in the proper directotys (meaning anything else other than what
slackware knows as the directory will not work).
I presume caldera is the same, i have installed caldera here on 2 different
machines, lizard is the install program, which i must confess leaves a lot
to be desired compared to Redhat and Slackware.
> PPS: PLEASE help cuz noone where i live knows Linux or
> so.
I dont know "so" i do know linux, what you need to tell us is the name of
the file you downloaded and the URL from where it came, then i can look and
see what needs to be done in your case.
> PPPS:i used to log on BBSes so i got that quote from
> there ;)
Ah! ok, i suppose you also have seen;
Never inslut an aligator untill you have crossed the river.??
> u seem to be a wolf, by the way u answer. an
> answer under each paragraph ;) take care.
Yes, that is how i was taught to answer a mail, addressing each paragraph
as it comes, however thesedays most folks write a message in one big
paragraph, without punctuation marks or even without a break to take a
breather.
No wonder we cant understand what one wants or what one even means.
--
Regards Richard
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