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Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes
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James |
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Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes |
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Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:22:48 -0800 |
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:49:16 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:
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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
>
DEVON RULES!!
Ok now that that's outa the way. I should be back umoung the normal in a day
or two. At that time I'll immediately try this out with those notebooks I
have. PS where do you point a linux install for ftp install? Never done it
with linux only BSD.
James
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- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, (continued)
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Devon, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Gordon Buzowetsky, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, James, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Gordon Buzowetsky, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Devon, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Gordon Buzowetsky, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Devon, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Martin Stricker, 2002/03/27
Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Martin Stricker, 2002/03/26
Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes,
James <=
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Devon, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, James, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Devon, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Gordon Buzowetsky, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Devon, 2002/03/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Gordon Buzowetsky, 2002/03/29
Re: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Marco Fioretti, 2002/03/25
Fw: [Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes, Gordon Buzowetsky, 2002/03/25