I just got the CD written today and am going to try to install tonight. What is the difference between grub and lilo? And, can I install with grub on the first part of the partition instead of in the MBR like lilo? I have a 13.6 GB HD and have Win98/Trustix-1.2/RedHat-7.0 installed to triple boot with a bit of room left over for another distro or 2 ( maybe a BSD ). In other words, will it play well with lilo? I would like to try it out. sim Tom Hudak wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:06:01PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > >well for one, grub failed to install and left my system unbootable after the > >first reboot into the new system. For another I didn't like the absence of > >some of apts tools (they're probably there now) and when I tried to add in > >debian's sources.list lines things got totally hosed somehow. > That's because you are supposed to use progeny's sources fool. :-) > <hint> progeny is a hack on debian/testing </hint) > You overwrote the entire progeny distro with debian, that's like upgrading > your redhat6.2 install with the valinux 6.2 disk. > >It was a while ago so I can't remmeber. Tom is running it on his laptop (at > >least he was) and had similar dislikes (except grub, he loves grub) perhaps > >he'd elaborate more. > I wasn't to pleased with RC1 or the beta's but any of the issues I was having > are seemingly gone in 1.0. I think Ben's problems with grub are related to his > vaio. I have had no problems at all, and in fact, I'll probably never use lilo > again. > > As far as overall use goes, it's just like a debian install, all the external > debian sources (ie, non-debian system source lines.) work fine. I have gnome > 1.4 installed, the cvs-builds of enlightenment and whatnot, and it all works > beautifully. > > PCMCIA scheme's do not seem to want to work too well though, I'll keep hacking > on that, but it's not a progeny issue. (I don't think.) > Thanks, > -- > Thomas J. Hudak > Systems Administrator > Sistina Software Inc. - www.sistina.com > Phone: 612.379.3951 > Page: 612.318.1967 > Fax: 612.379.3952 > Key fingerprint = BEC6 3181 4C9B A7BB AF11 4717 6F85 B346 380D 523E > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature