I tried Caldera Linux eDesktop 2.4, and unsupported version, by now and my experience has been a nightmare. I have tried to remove it, and I could access Windows. Among many of the problem, it seemed to have written up conflicting information for the floppy drive. So, if I remove it, I have to reinstall it, using its CD, but the floppy stays lit all the time. I managed to eliminate that problem for Windows, but I cannot access its floppy. So far, I start with my finger on the down arrow to select Windows, and I have 5 sec. to do do anything. In a way Linux has taken over my machine. Any ideas, with these limitations? I may be able to fix the floppy drive problem by disconnecting it, but will this be a permanent solution.

i assume when you say you're having trouble removing linux you're refering to the bootloader, if this is the case, get a winblows bootdisk, and boot with it once booted type 'fdisk /mbr' without the '' ..

In the second or third line, and to a greater detail later, I mentioned the fact that I am having problems with the floppy disk, so I can't use any boot disk. For some reason,I see two different floppy configurations,and the one which wins the new one, certainly written by Linux, because no matter what I do, since I boot into Linux first, I am back to square one. Anyway, speaking of chainloader, I noticed it, and the values are (hd 0,0)+1, whatever they mean. Once when I was set into windows, I clicked e for edit, and I tried to reverse the order of booting, and nothing seemed to happened. I would love to be able to boot into Windows, first, and then remove Linux, and put it back in. The situation is impossible,now that everything is screwed up.

Hi again, have you tried going into the bios and setting it to boot from floppy, I don't understand what you mean when you say the floppy doesn't work, there is no reason it would be messed up, more info would help, are you using LILO, or GRUB ? How do you have the harddrive(s) partitioned, etc ... paste the lilo/grub config here if you can .