On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:44:52PM +0100, Terry Filby wrote:
I'll start by giving you a resume of my computer in case it has a bearing on the trouble I am having with Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.
Can you start by trimming the message you're replying to next time, please? It's a digest and I've seen all those messages twice...
Computer: Packard Bell Executive 200MHz (Upgrade - CenterHauls x86 Family 5 Model 4 Stepping 1 200MHz MMX), S3 (I think) 1Mb Graphic Card, 48Mb Physical Memory, American Megatrends Bios, version 100.05CP0R, dated 4/15/96, 4.3 Gb Hard Drive partitioned by FDisk into 2 equal size partitions - C and D, FAT16.
Nothing there makes me instantly suspicious except the CPU being an upgrade... is it a straight "pull out one chip, insert another" type? If you have any doubts, check it with the Hardware HOWTO from http://www.linuxdoc.org/ (local mirror http://webdocs.essex.ac.uk/LDP/)
Have no trouble with installing Linux, just rebooting it. Tried several times with PartitionMagic on Linux disk with no success and couldn't partition on D as I wanted, so bought on-line System Commander 2000, it too has, so far, been unsuccessful but there are signs (encouraging?). I was able to partition D, it said Linux is bootable, which it still isn't and also said that I must be sure to select Root Superblock choice - I would, but have no idea where this is located.
Dual boots are always trickier. However, I have no recent experience with them, only with cantankerous single-boots. There's something about having two bootable partitions that worries me, and I'm assuming that the Caldera installer didn't offer to let you put the bootloader whereever you wanted?