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

[James]

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
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> > 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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