On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:49:33PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > It works for about 95% of our users based on installation reports. I > expect that 90% of our users don't bother to file reports -- I've not > seen any from you.
I posted one to debian-boot, which no one answered. > Anyway, no, hardware autodetection is not the only new feature compared > to the boot floppies. Off the top of my head a few other user-visible > features: > > - automatic disk partitioning Not if you want to resize your NTFS partition. I had to use a shareware product. GNU ntfstools are not included. > - support for XFS, reiserfs, jfs Irrelevant to me personally, but granted. > - booting from USB keychain Didn't know that. > - wireless networking Not with my card. > - 2.6 kernel Not on my hardware. Freeze. > - grub as the boot loader Not for me -- I use LILO. > - automatic detection of other OSes (linux, windows, etc) and > addition of working boot entires for these in the grub menu Not in my case. I did say "basically" the same as boot-floppies. None of the above strikes me as "basic". (I did say "basically", right? I don't have a copy of my own post to hand.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]