Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:00:54 -0600, Jamin W Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV said: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:02:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I believe lilo and grub already have that. I am not sure lilo has it, but for grub see /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz Initially update-grub might seem a bit weird, it extracts comments from the menu.lst file in order

Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other bootloaders, from grub to yaboot/quik, aboot, palo, you name it. Yes, the kernel-image postinst runs lilo, but lilo.conf is invariably out of

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Josh Lauricha
On Wed 10:51, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other bootloaders, from grub to yaboot/quik, aboot, palo, you name it. Yes, the kernel-image postinst runs

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other bootloaders, from grub to yaboot/quik, aboot, palo, you name it. Yes, the kernel-image postinst

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config Why on earth are you hand editing the lilo.conf file for every kernel image?

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:25, Josh Lauricha wrote: On Wed 10:51, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other bootloaders, from grub to

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config files for other bootloaders,

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config Why on

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV said: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config Why on earth are you hand editing the

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 20 Aug 2003 15:39:18 -0400, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing

Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier

2003-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 20 Aug 2003 16:04:50 -0400, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain, especially for