Hi Samuel!
10 Dec 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> I think this operating system can be installed somehow from DOS,
SH> but the book doesn't explain how, and the CD-ROM apparently has
SH> no DOS-based partitioning program for Linux.
Why do you need it ?!?
If your computer can boot from CD-ROM do so.
If not, than make a bootdisk (rawhide bootdisk.img <I don't know the exact
name of the disk image>)
boot from it, and there you are
SH> I am very puzzled as to why Caldera would have produced a CD-ROM
SH> for installing Linux from Windows instead of from DOS.
I personally don't like caldera linux ...
it is very 'graphic'
SH> There still remained many empty directories and some files associated
SH> with my Windows 95 installation. I tried removing these directories
SH> by using the DOS "rd" command. This resulted in an error message
SH> saying "directory not empty", even though an inspection revealed that
SH> the directory was indeed empty.
Either hidden files (h attrib) or the rest of long filenames.
SH> Also I tried to delete some of the few remaining Windows files by
SH> using the DOS "del" command. I would get an error message saying
SH> something to the effect that I could not delete files with long file
SH> names. Then I booted to A: using a WIN 95 boot disk. I couldn't
SH> delete the files having long file names even when I used the WIN 95
SH> version of DOS.
Ähmm .. the first del has to be also win95 version of dos (dos 7.0)
if not, it would have known nothing about LFNs.
SH> Also I could not delete the empty directories by using the "rd"
SH> command.
why not use linux to delete ?!?
or run scandisk on the partition to clean remainings of LFNs ?!?
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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