WELL YEAH
-THANKS- for helping me.
BAH. WHAT DO U HAVE,TO SHOW OFF? U DO KNOW ALL
WHAT I MEAN AND SO WHAT AM I DOING? DID I SAY
SOMETHING LIKE THAT I KNOW BETTER THEN YOU OR SO? SO Y
AM I ASKING YOU? DO U HAVE TO INSULT AND ALL? WHY IS
THIS LIST FOR? TO INSULT THE NEW-COMERS? I AM NOT A
LAMER. I AM A NEWBIE.
THANKS FOR NOT HELPING AND SHOWING ME HOW LOW A
PERSON COULD EVER BE.
BYE
--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stand
> Oui ------- hue moor butt fore yore 2N+1 righting
> stile.
> mite
>
> 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.
>
> [old stuff deleted]
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me
> the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski
> -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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