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With some effort, you can puzzle out the meaning of the preceding sentence,
but surely this one is easier to read. Please consider: this is a worldwide
list, with many participants who are not native English speakers. Even for
those of us who are, the IRC style of communication isn't what we are best
at, and we often find it eapecially difficult as a way to communicate on
technical matters.
I downloaded the Caldera Lizard disks (that's how Caldera seems to spell it,
at least) and booted the installer. It offers an "install from Harddisk"
option, so apparently there is some way to do it. (There is also an NFS
option.) Unfortunately, they don't seem to be documented anywhere that is
accessible -- severl README-style files on the Caldera ftp site refer us to
the "Getting Started Guide", which seems to be absent from the ftp site (as
is a "doc" directory that one of the READMEs refers to) ... though if you
have access to the contents of the .iso file, you might see if it is there.
Without a better description of what "burn iso to my hdd" means and what
sort of "folder" (my hard disks don't have "folders"; they have partitions,
filesystems, directories, and files) you "then copied the contents to", I
doubt any of us will be able to help with your somewhat unusual approach to
installation.
If you are new to Linux (I really can't tell), you might want to consider if
Caldera is the best place to start. Caldera is at the "highly commercial"
end of the spectrum of distributions, and I suspect they make it as hard as
they can, consistent with their GPL obligations, to install it without paying.
You might want to look at the range of alternatives available, from (for
example) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/, to see if some
other distribution might better fulfill your needs. The one I use, Debian, s
designed for network installations, and several others (Slackware, for
example) are not too hard to do that way. There are also some that get
downloaded as one large .tgz or .zip file and installed directly from that.
Or you might want to look for a source for cheap CDs. I get free ones from
time to time, and places like Cheapbytes
(http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart) and Linux Central
(http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart) might even be cheap enough to fit
your budget. If there is a Linux Users Group (LUG) near you, try going to
its next meeting -- the LUG around here always seems to have copies of the
GPL versions of the various distributions, usually to give away, if not to
sell for a buck or two.
At 03:15 PM 5/29/00 -0700, ll wrote:
> Hello again,
> U couldn't understand it or i couldn't tell
>properly. i DID burn iso to my hdd. hdd=hard disk
>drive :�
> i got a virtual cd rom program. So i burned the
>ISO image to my harddisk.I know it is naturally to be
>burned to the cd rom but with my program i can burn it
>to my hdd so i did burn it to my hdd. and then copied
>the contents to a folder. Can i run the installation
>from that folder and how , that's what i am asking.
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