Hello Richard: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:28:39 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> 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 ?!? First I fdisked and formatted the hard drive by using DOS. Then I installed DOS on it so that I could install Windows from DOS. The only reason why I installed Windows on it was so that I could then install OpenLinux on it. The book doesn't describe how you can install Linux from DOS except for the case where you can boot to the CD-ROM drive. My system does not allow booting to the CD-ROM drive. > 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 After installing DOS and before installing Windows I did that in order to make a bootable Linux floppy. I did succeed in booting to Linux and accessing the CD-ROM drive from there. After I got into the CD-ROM drive I tried to figure out how to partition my hard drive to prepare it for a Linux installation. The book doesn't describe how to partition the hard drive for Linux by using a Linux program. The book says I should use a Windows program named Partition Magic which was on the CD-ROM drive. I had to install Windows in order to install Partition Magic. If there were a DOS program on the CD-ROM drive for partitioning the hard drive for Linux I would not have had to have installed Windows. Also if there were a Linux partitioning program on the CD-ROM drive I would not have had to have installed Windows. > 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' I also found it indeed very graphic. The GUI for it known as KDE works a lot like Windows. I think there is a way to get to a command-line box from there, but I haven't learned how yet. Please don't explain. I think I will be able to figure out this part on my own. > 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. No hidden files or read-only or system files. Some of the so-called long file names appeared to conform to the DOS 8.3 filename specification, but DOS won't delete them because DOS thinks they are 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. I could not delete these unwanted files and empty directories even after booting to a WIN 95 system floppy! > 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 ?!? I haven't yet learned enough about Linux to know how to go about doing this. I have been thinking about running scandisk. I can't do that right now because the computer that I installed OpenLinux on is located far away. I will not be able to go there and use that computer frequently. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
