Re: purposes
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 <swalsh@d.umn.edu> 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.
>
>
>
>
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