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 -- |~)o _ _o Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> {ICQ: 7659421} (PGP) |~\|(__\| -=> Ithinkmyspacebarstoppedworking! <=-