Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
syslinux has been removed (?) but has not been modified for quite a lot, I will redo
it with some more patches (around 20 to 40 modified lines) to make sure it will
use (in fact ignore specific lilo extension in message file) the same image
format as lilo use, currently some escape sequence are not used the same way, so
the file may need to be tweaked by and if it is used by lilo and someone want to
use with syslinux.
Fran�ois.
