On (20/05/04 13:13), Colin Watson wrote: > > 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? Yes- I'm sure you're right - I suppose I was expecting some sort of prompt and by the time I realised that I needed to do some partitioning, I was someway into the installation. Being the first time I looked at the installer, I think I was expecting the same level of interaction as with the woody installer - not a criticism. I'll repeat with the next beta release and see how it goes - it is way slicker than the woody version ;)
> > > 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? Sounds fine - I have it normally set for 20 secs and then override on boot but I guess that's just a personal perference. When you're familiar with what's being presented then 5 secs is a long time; if it's all new to you, it flashes by and you think.... what? ;) Maybe I'm just slower than most ;) > > 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. Great ;) Thanks Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
