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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Glen Cunningham <glenc@nor.com.au>
  Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:18:25 +1000

Re: Corel Linux & NT

At 08:07 20/02/00 +1100, Glen Cunningham wrote:

>At 11:24 PM 2/19/00 +1000, Brian Astill wrote:
>>Anyone tried installing Corel Linux from WinNT?
>
>Not from NT.
>
>>Is Corel Linux Win9x-specific?
>
>Seems to be.

That's my impression

>  Have you tried the floppy boot image (rawrite it from the CD)?

Yup - AND everything else I could think of <grin>.

>Corel Linux seems to be aimed at first-time users and the whole distro with
>dead-tree doco may be OK.  After SuSE, it is a bit of a letdown.

I guess I wanted to confirm this for myself.  Another 'problem' is that if
CL installation depends on the existence of Windose, the whole object of
GPL freeware is undermined.

>Cheers from warm-and-sunny RedRock

But I DON'T 'like it hot', even though 'Some' do! :-)

Brian

Brian Astill,  Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education

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