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  From: Jeremy Ervine <omegasys@adam.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:42:25 +950

Re: Corel Linux & NT

I managed to successfully "INSTALL" corel linux on a pc with no operating system
already installed on the system, however, on it's first boot, it froze at LI
...

Alternativly, i created a FAT32 partition, formated it with a win95 bootdisk
using format c: /s, then installed corel linux into that partition using running
loadlin.bat from my autoexec.bat file. Although it did actually work, it was
painfully slow.

--
Jeremy

>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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