On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:07:31AM -0400, Mike M wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:40:01PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting your instructions. > > Now I know where to look for them. > > The mkisofs is a thing of wonder. The man page is huge and > full of mystical concepts. I am not qualified to expound on > its use. Nevertheless, I feel I should more fully qualify > that I put the .iso into a new directory and cd'd to the dir > before running mkisofs. > > > BTW, I think that the new debian-installer (for sid/unstable) > > comes with grub as default - which might make new SID install CDs > > particularly valuable as a rescue CD. Here's hopin. > > That answers a question that was brewing in my head, "Why > does Woody still use lilo when grub is the gnu way of the > future?" I presume the answer to be, "Woody is stable and > grub is not stable." The gnu grub site indicates this clearly > by stating the grub (known as legacy grub) is deprecated, and > grub2 is available from CVS only. That's a pretty good > description of "not stable" IMO. grub2 would not complete > the configure operation on a Woody workstation because of > a library that was missing or outdated (LZO IIRC).
Also remember that Woody was originally released back in August 2002 (I believe), and frozen for quite a while before that. At that time, Lilo was still generally considered to be the primary boot loader for Linux. But once Debian makes a release, the only updates are for security fixes, so the Woody boot loader wasn't going to change, even though Grub has become increasingly popular since then. <snip> Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
