On Wednesday 30 May 2001 01:20 pm, Alexander Skwar may or may not have
written:
> So sprach Hoyt am Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:01:27PM -0400:
> > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 05:46 pm, you methodically organized electrons to
> >
> > state:
> > > Which package provides this?
> >
> > Curiously, the author of syslinux, H. Peter Anvin, suggests that you
> > avoid the Mandrake variant and suggests a d/l from his page
>
> Uhm, that's not how I understand it. Quoting from his download site:
> | WARNING - beware the Mandrake SYSLINUX
> | RPM! It's a pretty severe and unsupported modification of SYSLINUX;
> | while it does add graphical bootimage support, Peter is working on his
> | own version of the same.
>
> For me, this means that those two versions differ. Nothing more, nothing
> less.
>
Then why would he include the words "WARNING" "beware" or "severe" ?
Certainly these words imply that one should be cautious. If the Mandrake
version and differences were innocuous in his opinion, I suspect he would
have used different language, but perhaps he is only being overprotective. No
matter; the choice is there for all of us and now it is a more informed
choice.
Anyway, this doesn't answer the original question and, for me anyway, the
Software Manager doesn't indicate the program is available from the
installation CD's. I notice syslinux is gone from the dosutils directory on
CD1 also.
Is the Mandrake syslinux package in contribs?
Hoyt
