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Congratulations on a fine document. I like the new style - finally a |
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date last updated!!! |
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Having installed and worked with _rc5 and various other distros in the |
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past few months, I've come across one glitch in the otherwise letter |
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perfect installation process - the grub vs. lilo issue. |
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I (and perhaps others in your audience) have a multi-boot machine. |
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I'm currently running from a jblinux distro while waiting for _rc6 to |
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jell, although I still boot from _rc5 from time to time. jblinux is |
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probably the only distro to offer an XFS file system. Unfortunately |
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the good folks at grub have never heard of XFS, so lilo is the only |
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way to boot from an XFS partition. You should offer lilo as an |
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alternative, or at least warn people that it may not be a good thing |
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to write grub to their mbr, if they have other bootable distros to |
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worry about. |
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The thing I like most about lilo is that a simple change to |
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boot=/dev/fd0 will create a boot floppy so that you don't have to |
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worry about messing with your normal boot setup until you know the new |
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_rc6 system is stable. It's more complicated, but doable, to create a |
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grub boot floppy, but that would also be an alternative. |
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Just my $.02. |
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Collins Richey |
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Denver Area |
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jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera |
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