After downloading the RedmondLinux 1.9 disk image, I'd like to get a little
information if possible before installing please. The machine that I am
planning to install to has 5 main partitions as follows
/dev/hda1 - Windows
/dev/hda2 - Best Linux 2000 R2
/dev/hdb1 - Linux Swap
/dev/hdb2 - Mandrake 7.1 Linux
/dev/hdc1 - Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
The /dev/hda2 partition is mainly used to test out new Linux distributions.
I noticed that one of the issues in bugzilla (#153) said that Redmond Linux
makes booting to Windows difficult. Is this still the case? Can LILO be
installed to the destination partition only and NOT to the MBR? I'd really
like to test RedmondLinux, but if I mess up the Windows partition, my wife
and kids wouldn't be too happy. So, my main question then is "Is my Windows
partition safe?"
Past that, I was wondering if any of the "ease-of-use" functionality that
other distributions created (and open-sourced) would be implemented in
Redmond Linux. Caldera made installation easier, but removed the individual
package selection. BestLinux (although based on RedHat Linux) used
Caldera's installation and added individual package selection. Corel
created a GUI even for Samba, but made it difficult for experienced users to
configure Linux without the GUI.
Samba seems very easy to administer through SWAT. Is Redmond Linux going to
use only "native" linux GUI's for configuration, or will HTML page tools
like SWAT or WEBMIN be considered acceptable for end use.
By the way, the AutoRun.inf file doesn't launch "\winsetup\autorun.exe"
under Win2000. I get the error "Perhaps dropping the slash before
"winsetup" in the inf file will fix this.
Thanks you for any answers that anyone can provide.
