moving from Sco to Linux

[Fairlight]

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Kenneth Brody shouted:
> 
> I assume that Professional is not available as a free download?

If you do the ftp install like I did, it appears to be the professional,
as you have all the -devel things that are apparently missing from the
personal version, full devkits, etc.  

That's what I did with arcadia...the ftp install.  I didn't even use a
floppy -or- cdrom.  Neither work on this box any longer and aren't worth
replacing, so I came up with an interesting way of getting around that,
using a small partition on a HD. :)

Basically, I just got all five modules floppy images and the boot floppy
image and loadlin, extracted and combined the modules floppies into one
ext2 filesystem on a HD somewhere (you have to splice together the
modules.conf files, but the rest just folds into the same filesystem), and
used loadlin to fire up the boot floppy--then I told it the modules disks
were on the partition they were on.  Voila.

Most people won't have to work around lack of floppy -and- cdrom, but it
can be done if necessary.  Moreover, it was free.  :)

mark->
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