Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes

[Devon]

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On Monday 25 March 2002 08:39 am, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> what should we say if asked "will miniconda/slinky damage
> my other Win *9x/NT/2K/XP partition"?

Miniconda, just like the stock Red Hat installer asks where you want to 
install the boot loader. It also detects (at least) a windows install and 
adds an entry to dual boot.

Slinky asks before running Lilo, gives the option to opt out, and doesn't 
even attempt to detect another OS. 
However, it does offer to create a boot disk. 
I could also easily add an option to write lilo to a floppy.

Progress report:
Slinky (my test version) is now capable of doing (local network - dialup 
isn't available) http and ftp installs. The user has to get the network 
up and configured before running the script, but the tools are available, 
and it isn't overly difficult. On my machine, it consists of saying:
insmod /mnt/floppy/modules/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7

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