Now try doing it w/o a bootable CD. Linux isn't really about supporting the man with the extra ram and everything else, there are users out there w/ 386 and 486 boxes, 2x cds, 14.4 modems...
--- Steven Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> An interesting editorial I looked at the other day said > >> that caldera had a distribution that installed purely graphically, > >> with minimal intervention. The writer did comment that the whole > >> setup was harder to administer in a traditional unix/linux manner, > >> so it wasn't going to please anyone. > > > >I gave the install to an NT admin as a test and the commercial boot loader > >broke NT. > > > > > Odd. I just did a Caldera 2.2 install on my system (K6-2 400mHz, 96mb > SDRAM(66mHz), 6gb hdd, 2gb hdd, Riva TNT, 56k modem, 10bT ethernet, SB PNP) > last night. Ironically, I had more trouble with just booting from the CDROM > than I did from using the Windows 9x installation interface that Caldera > provided. I was really impressed. > > I'm not sure what I think of their graphical bootup screen, though, or > their BootMagic loader instead of the traditional LILO interface. The > former seems to hide a lot of the readouts from the user (though dmesg is > available). Admittedly, I haven't looked into disabling it yet. > > > > === John van Vlaanderen ######################################### # CXN, Inc. Contact: # # [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.thinman.com # # 1 917 309 7379 (cell, voice mail) # ######################################### _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com