Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:23:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gregor J Jones <gjones@bu.edu>
To: Caldera Users List <caldera-users@rim.caldera.com>
Subject: Install COL 2.2 from Download

Ok, everybody, here is a snippage from alt.os.linux.caldera describing a
successfull install...

Now, can this be done without burning a CD? I am guessing it might work
if the distro is downloaded to a separate partition and this partition
is mounted as /mnt, as if it were the CD.

Anybody know what is "wget". 

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Gregor J Jones                     mailto: gjones@bu.edu
Boston MA

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:32:35 GMT
From: Trevor Dennis <tdennis@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Woudl someone please post the directory structure of their retail 
    boxed COL 2.2 cd?

I actually have downloaded and created my own CD.  It works, but only if I
created the boot floppies first.  The dos install didn't seem to work.  It
complained about reading past the end of the ext2-fs device.

As for the directory structure, I used an existing linux system and the
wget program to grab everything under the 2.2 directory.  I used
ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/... as the site.  Caldera's site kept
leaving out files for some reason or would go down in the middle of the
download.

After getting all the files, I moved the sources/SRPMS files out so they
wouldn't be included in the CD.  As for the boot image, I use my own dos
boot image on the CD.  I have various other things I include on the CD
which I need dos to access.  It also gives me a chance to make some system
changes before the Linux install works.  I usually use the loadlin method
of getting Linux running for the install (although it didn't work for me).

Trevor Dennis
tjdennis@hotmail.com