moving from Sco to Linux

[Bill Vermillion]

I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Fri, Jul 23 16:21 , Fairlight
actually admitted to saying:" 

> >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.
> :)

And for those with a CD there is a boot.iso CD that is
about 24MB long, so you don't even have to go after the floppy
images.  

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com