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  • From: Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>
  • To: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: eric AT sandall.us, spencero AT mail.utexas.edu, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] 1.0 iso suggestions
  • Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:18:48 -0700

Yup, it does already give the information.

On 23 Oct 2002 12:06:31 -0400
Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net> wrote:

> IIRC it does tell you that if you want it on the MBR you need to change
> the conf (and how).
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 13:02, Eric Sandall wrote:
> >
> > Spencer Ogden said:
> > > If I remember correctly this has always been a 'feature'. It made
> > > sense when Sorcery was usually the second distro on a box, but now
> > > that we are
> > > releasing I think it is a little much to expect users to know they
> > > have
> > > to put a loader in the MBR seperate from the installation process, no
> > > one else does it that way...
> > >
> > > Spencer
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:19 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > >> Good job on the ISO! Went flawlessly for me, I can even use XFS now!
> > >> One slight problem with LILO, though, it still defaults to a
> > >partition> for boot, rather than a disk. Is this a bug (perhaps with
> > >the lilo> spell in my section), or perhaps a "feature" so that LILO
> > >won't> overwrite a boot loader the user may already have?
> > >>
> > >> -One of Four
> > >> a.k.a. sandalle
> >
> > Perhaps we should then give more info on the installer? Perhaps in the
> > menu where you can Optionally Re-configure LILO, and inform the user
> > that if they want SMGL to install the boot loader for the entire system,
> > change boot to use /disc instead of /partx, otherwise, leave as is and
> > modify their normal boot loader (Norton Commander, Windows, GRUB, etc.)
> >
> > -One of Four
> > a.k.a. sandalle
> >
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