1) is this in 8.0, 8.1?, or just cooker for 8.2 when its released? 2) Documentation? 3) How does it find the bootable partition(s)? - is it automated, asks questions or depends on the user knowing where his partition is?
Boot disks are ok if you have an up to date one ... Having been through this (for some reason MOST Mandrake installs fail to make a boot disk for me - this includes 8.1) and I have to manually create one afterwards. During a failed 8.0 install, with no bootdisk I had to resort to the CD rescue image and manually try to sort it out - what a timeconsuming, messy operation that was (luckily I had another installation where I could look up help files etc). Certainly had the windows people in stitches over how primitive this aspect of Linux is when it doesnt work! Mind you, if I'd some decent hints at the time it would have been easier! BillK On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 12:05, Han wrote: > Vox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Is this the end of the discussion? > > > Mmmm....it's probably the greatest idea the mandrake team has > > had since the creation of diskdrake...I have only one nitpicking to > > do...the name is hell long :) Couldn't we get it to be something like > > "lilo install" instead of "linux install_bootloader"? Specially for > > those of us who are in a non-english-speaking country, where we need > > to spell all of that over the phone...it's gonna take a hell of a long > > time :) (tho yes, I realize, it's a lot faster than telling local > > newbies to go to the LUG's website and follow the instructions for > > getting lilo back in place that we have there) > > linux install_lilo > > > Cya, Han. >
