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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> That must have been a very old floppy, as it doesn't recognize FAT32
> partitions (any DOS/Win9x partition larger than 2 GB).  You can download
> a Win98 boot floppy from http://bootdisk.com. Boot from the floppy and
> type "fdisk /mbr".

I presume this is to unload lilo from the master boot record (which is not 
a partition so you cannot repartition to remove it).  Does not BL3.40 
2-floppy set have lilo on it already, which you could run with a switch to 
remove it (lilo -u or /u ?).

You should not need to install Caldera Linux in order to read the help 
files on it, just mount the CD (mount /dev/hdc /mnt if secondary master, 
or dmesg|less to see if it is hdc first, it could be hdb or hdd) and read 
from it.  Look for HOWTOS, and man pages in man format - and ignore the 
tags.  Or get man2html from a Slackware package and gunzip and convert the 
man pages, then read with links.  There is a discussion about this in the 
archives if you want to make a script.

Caldera is the worst linux I have tried for older hardware.

Sindi