Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard
Erik == Erik B Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the Christoph prompt and also the ability to boot something with a Christoph single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo Christoph package and provide a decent configuration then lilo Christoph could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies Christoph are no longer irritated. I'll have a look at this. Christoph Maybe lilo could also replace syslinux for the Christoph bootdisks?? As someone else already said, this would be a bad idea, since the advantage of syslinux is its DOS support. Erik My wife likes chos because it offers a nice simple and friendly Erik and obvious like Windoze type of menu that lets her use the arrow Erik keys to move a color menu bar onto the (unmentionable OS) selection Erik a press enter. This is very easy, and requires no domestic fighting. Yes, I liked that feature of chos when I looked at it. Erik I took a quick glance at the lilo 2.0 user's manual last night and Erik I wasn't convinced that the message feature was going to be a Erik nice simple and friendly and obvious like Windoze type of replacement. Erik chos is much better than booting Linux using loadlin from a certain Erik unmentionable OS, (which is how I used to not freak out my wife). Erik If the message feature of lilo 2.0 can make lilo as Erik friendly as chos, fine, I will use it. I doubt I will be making a No, it certainly won't do that. :( Erik switch really soon though. How hard would it be to hack bzImage Erik support into chos? That is the only real problem with chos, right? Well, I have pretty specific requirements (which meant I had been using lilo 17 until lately when 20 came out) - I need the feature which can hide one DOS partition when you select another. Erik Are there any other features lacking from it that make it unusable Erik by Debian? I can certainly attest to the fact that this is one Erik piece of software that passes the wife test! I also believe that it can't/won't load its second-stage loader from the second hard drive (i.e. BIOS drive 0x81). This really should be a simple fix, however. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the Christoph prompt and also the ability to boot something with a Christoph single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo Christoph package and provide a decent configuration then lilo Christoph could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies Christoph are no longer irritated. I'll have a look at this. Christoph Maybe lilo could also replace syslinux for the Christoph bootdisks?? As someone else already said, this would be a bad idea, since the advantage of syslinux is its DOS support. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. My wife likes chos because it offers a nice simple and friendly and obvious like Windoze type of menu that lets her use the arrow keys to move a color menu bar onto the (unmentionable OS) selection a press enter. This is very easy, and requires no domestic fighting. I took a quick glance at the lilo 2.0 user's manual last night and I wasn't convinced that the message feature was going to be a nice simple and friendly and obvious like Windoze type of replacement. chos is much better than booting Linux using loadlin from a certain unmentionable OS, (which is how I used to not freak out my wife). If the message feature of lilo 2.0 can make lilo as friendly as chos, fine, I will use it. I doubt I will be making a switch really soon though. How hard would it be to hack bzImage support into chos? That is the only real problem with chos, right? Are there any other features lacking from it that make it unusable by Debian? I can certainly attest to the fact that this is one piece of software that passes the wife test! -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen Web:http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard
On Jun 23, Erik B. Andersen wrote : : friendly as chos, fine, I will use it. I doubt I will be making a : switch really soon though. How hard would it be to hack bzImage : support into chos? That is the only real problem with chos, right? : Are there any other features lacking from it that make it unusable : by Debian? I can certainly attest to the fact that this is one : piece of software that passes the wife test! : Just sitting and waiting is wife proof too ;-) This way I installed lilo. Having in mind that's quite easy to tell users of the unmentionable ``OS'' that they simply should wait (the lilo message option does this quite well) and knowing, that, if I use the Linux soul of my machine, I boot once at beginning of my work and stop once if all is done ..., so typing ``linux'' is not too hard for me. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpi8I20HCsH3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christoph Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the Christoph prompt and also the ability to boot something with a Christoph single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo Christoph package and provide a decent configuration then lilo Christoph could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies Christoph are no longer irritated. I'll have a look at this. Christoph Maybe lilo could also replace syslinux for the Christoph bootdisks?? As someone else already said, this would be a bad idea, since the advantage of syslinux is its DOS support. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard
On Jun 21, Christoph Lameter wrote Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the prompt and also the ability to boot something with a single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo package and provide a decent configuration then lilo could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies are no longer irritated. Maybe lilo could also replace syslinux for the bootdisks?? no ! syslinux is a goot thing, because you can modify the boot disk with dos. this way is was able to replace the kernel (dos file linux) with the vmlinuz image from 2.0.30. i needed that to install linux on a computer with a buslogic scsi controller (supported in 2.0.30, not in 2.0.29). with lilo boot disk will maybe not have a dos format, and this way i cannot do such things. regards, andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard
Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the prompt and also the ability to boot something with a single keystroke. If someone could update the lilo package and provide a decent configuration then lilo could also offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies are no longer irritated. Maybe lilo could also replace syslinux for the bootdisks?? --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
