clone 250007 -1 reassign -1 yaboot-installer retitle -1 increase boot delay severity -1 minor thanks
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:42:05PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: [not sure about all your issues, I'll reply to a few bits I know about] > Partition Hard drives - I was wary of mucking up my sid install which is > my production workstation and so didn't explore too deeply but there > didn't seem to be the option to partition /dev/hda17 (which I'd set > aside for this install) to separate /var /usr. I suspect I didn't look > deep enough ;) Don't you just need to delete that partition and create some new ones, one of which is /var and one /usr? > Minor points - My system has OSX, sid and now sarge installed. Yaboot > was automatically configured to boot OSX or sarge but > 1. There is no delay setting in /etc/yaboot.conf to allow one to > choose OSX - unless your v quick ;) The delay is three seconds (yaboot uses the value of timeout if delay isn't set). I'll bump it up to five seconds for the Linux/OS X/etc. choice and ten seconds for the second-stage Linux choice. Does that sound OK? > 2. It would have been nice to have a boot option for the sid > installation automatically configured - definitely a low priority ;) Current daily builds have this; you'll get an hda16-Linux option or similar at the second stage. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
