The first thing I did was download the iso images of Caldera Openlinux 3.1.1 and create the CD-ROMs.
Where to find the iso images ?
Note.- I used to have some links here to URLs where you could download ISO images of
Caldera Openlinux but because of the recently problems with SCO and linux, ALL the ISOs
have dissapeared from the Net; at this moment I do not know of any URL where you can get them.
:(
Because the PCMCIA stuff is not included on the original Openlinux 3.1.1
kernel, and during installation process the PCMCIA disk is not recognized
from the USB floppy, I have to think about another method of installation.
I thought about creating a kernel with SCSI and PCMCIA included but
it is too large to fit on a single disk I choose the option of booting
from the HD.
Another possibility I have thought was to copy the CDROM to a partition
created on the HD and boot with the normal installation disk from the USB
floppy.
If you do not have a floppy the easier way I can think of is a NFS
installation.
1.- Create a temporary directory: /boot/install/
2.- From the CD, copy: /col/launch/linux/vmlinuz /col/launch/linux/initrd.gz
into this directory.
3.- zcat /boot/install/initrd.gz | dd of=/dev/ram2 bs=1k
4.- mkdir /mnt/tmp
5.- mount /dev/ram2 /mnt/tmp
6.- Insert pcmcia floppy or loopback mounted image:
6.1.- mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
OR
6.2.- mount -o loop /col/launch/floppy/pcmcia.144
/mnt/floppy
7.- cp -a /mnt/floppy /mnt/tmp
8.- umount /mnt/tmp
9.- dd if=/dev/ram2 bs=1k | gzip --best >/boot/install/initrd.gz Now
you would have a new "initrd.gz". You can get it already built from here.
I created a directory called c:\install for Linux-related things. Here's a list of the files you'll need:
To actually repartition the hard disk, you need a special tool. I happened to have purchased a copy of System Commander (which is a great program, by the way), so I used that, but FIPS 2.0 would probably work, too. Whatever you use should support FAT32 and allow you to nondestructively resize a partition.
I used System Commander partition tool and redid the disk entirely. I resized the original FAT32 partition down to 1024MB, created a second 1024MB FAT32 partition, then created a third 125MB linux partition (for /boot). Next, I created a Linux swap partition. Finally, I split the remaining space into several Linux ext2fs partitions and some free space.
I use LILO myself (installed on the root partition) but Col 3.1.1 default boot loader is GRUB. I use System Commander to handle all my operating systems (MSDOS6.22, Win98, Openlinux 3.1.1, Suse 7.3, etc...).
During installation most of the hardware was recognized, I only have
to set up some modules at boot time for sound, Network card and USB.
I'll talk about setting up sound and APM in later sections.