From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.25]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15e3o0-0005x7-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:11:04 -0600 Received: from jbl1.home.com ([24.255.149.198]) by femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010904001050.JORF19181.femail35.sdc1.sfba.home.com@jbl1.home.com> for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:10:50 -0700 From: Collins Richey To: gentoo Message-Id: <20010903182240.04ae4f16.erichey2@home.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Comments on the new "from source" (build) CD Installation page Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Sep 3 18:12:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:22:40 +0700 X-Archives-Salt: 96e48db2-4dd0-45f0-b15e-65fcfb0fc941 X-Archives-Hash: b8c661c2e1fab3c5d3fb023fc15c7ce5 Congratulations on a fine document. I like the new style - finally a date last updated!!! Having installed and worked with _rc5 and various other distros in the past few months, I've come across one glitch in the otherwise letter perfect installation process - the grub vs. lilo issue. I (and perhaps others in your audience) have a multi-boot machine. I'm currently running from a jblinux distro while waiting for _rc6 to jell, although I still boot from _rc5 from time to time. jblinux is probably the only distro to offer an XFS file system. Unfortunately the good folks at grub have never heard of XFS, so lilo is the only way to boot from an XFS partition. You should offer lilo as an alternative, or at least warn people that it may not be a good thing to write grub to their mbr, if they have other bootable distros to worry about. The thing I like most about lilo is that a simple change to boot=/dev/fd0 will create a boot floppy so that you don't have to worry about messing with your normal boot setup until you know the new _rc6 system is stable. It's more complicated, but doable, to create a grub boot floppy, but that would also be an alternative. Just my $.02. -- Collins Richey Denver Area jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera