On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 16:53, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > Turn that around; imagine you are a newbie and installing > a kernel rpm did nothing at all. What use is that?! What > deity ordained that you must know about grub/lilo/milo blah blah > just because you want to upgrade your kernel so that you can > use your nice new video camera? > > It's been said before; the experienced can look after themselves; > let the computer do whatever it can do for you that can make your > life easier. > > Anyway who said anything about overwriting? Lilo.conf has stanzas > for a reason. > At the risk of starting a distro war......
Debians kernel package handles this nicely (at least ones that you build yourself). It prompts the user regarding lilo and asks if they want a boot disk created etc. Best of both worlds IMHO, perhaps redhat could adopt something similar. Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile : +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
