hi joseph,
the installer looks for all windows partitions and makes a GRUB menu entry for
them so that it is selectable when you boot. for some reason, in bug 153 it
didn't work right. right now you can both keep redmond linux from modifying
the MBR and boot with a boot floppy.
in the "select boot loader" screen, or whatever it is called, there should be
an entry for each os you have installed, all linux partitions and each windows
partition. if this isn't right then don't write the MBR [there is a
checkbox]. but you should be able to write the MBR safely.
if you are really paranoid, make a windows boot disk before installing redmond
linux. if the installer doesn't let you boot windows, boot from the windows
boot disk and fdisk /mbr to restore the boot record.
caldera has added individual package selection into lizard as of LTP, but
redmond linux doesn't have it. we have also removed webmin and swat and will
be including our own utilities for configuration, ones that will make sense for
a desktop machine more than a server. the utils i have seen don't do what i
want them to do in the way i want them to. but i am open to other ideas.
of course redmond linux will let you hand edit your config files but the gui
admin utils will be geared for new users. so if you find that config tools
written for new users are too simplistic, you may not enjoy our config tools
either.
i'll look into the windows autorun issue. could you create a bug in bugzilla
for that? it would be appreciated.
Joseph Blough wrote:
> 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.
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thanks!
joe
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