Re: purposes
Quite doable. The package came with a bootdisk :)
>
>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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