On Wednesday 15 November 2006 03:32, pol wrote:
> > Use yast.
>
> You mean that the kcontrol package is not available in suse?
no... I did not mean to imply that... on Suse 10 you can activate the
kcontrol by clicking the kmenu item "Control Center", and for some things its
fine... I just prefer to manage the system with yast... but I realize its a
preference thing. On Suse the two overlap considerably.
Now back to your real problem.
I prefer the grub boot loader because of its dynamic two stage process. With
the grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) the only purpose of the first stage is to
load the second stage. The first stage resides in the boot disk master boot
record (the first 512 bytes of the disk) and the second stage resides on the
hard drive in /boot. So, if your bios supports booting from usb (and none
of my machines do, <sigh>) then the trick is to place the grub first stage on
the usb drive of choice... and you can select the usb device when you install
grub.
Having said all of this... I must admit that I have yet to actually do this...
so I am hoping that someone who has a machine that will boot from usb will
speak up and confirm that it actually works.
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M Harris <><
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