Horst,
I just got my private upgrade copy of System Commander 2000. Would you like
to volunteer to test drive SC 2000 w.your multi-boot DOS/miultiple-Linux box?
It would be even better if you could throw in a Win 2000. You could even test
SC 2000's OS Wizard partitioning functions(i.e., free up enough room in your
HD to install a Win 2000 and let SC 2000 guide you thru the landmines;
preserving everything that already works).
Rodney
Horst Lueck wrote:
> Paul, thanks for sending us the evaluation CDs.
>
> ELUG:
> I tested the workstation version last night on a system that is already
> configured with 2 linux installations and a small DOS 6.22 partition. So
> I had only limited space and tried the minimal installation first(ca.
> 170MB).
>
> The installation interface is clean&lean (mo|or lean&clean), no fluffy
> stuff, mostly white on black and only color when needed. I liked that
> part.
> Another good thing is that you can choose from half a dozen kernel
> version (from 386 to '686) -- very nice :<) [just to clarify some e-chat
> earlier on that subject]
>
> At the end you are explicitly presented with the option of installing
> lilo on a floppy disk - which eased my mind since I was doing this all to
> a functional workstation. At that point I would like to see the option of
> creating a bootdisk too (just in case the kernel on the HD gets shot).
> Sure, you can do that all manually but for the beginner it would be a
> nice option. - [did you hear me Paul?]
>
> I had not much time and chances to do more testing (just using the
> minimal installation). So I ran gpm and minicom and noticed that the
> symbolic links for /dev/mouse and /dev/modem are 'missing' -- which can
> be both, good or bad (just another aspect of being lean&clean). In that
> context I am wondering why none of the distributions contains a little
> script that probes all your serial ports and assigns the correct one to
> mouse and modem? (on my machine they are mostly wrong after a fresh
> installation) - [did you hear me Paul?]
>
> So much at the moment -- it would be nice to see at least as many factual
> email messages on the mailing list about actually evaluating Turbolinux
> as we had talk about getting it here.
>
> - Horst.
