Re: Supporting probe of existing OSes

2004-03-16 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:40:39PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Yeah, I'd like to have a fiddle with getting this support into d-i in time > for Sarge if possible. I'm not currently aware of a mainstream Linux > installer that does this, so we might score some points come review time... Some nic

Re: Supporting probe of existing OSes

2004-03-16 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:28:10PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > So is there a straightforward way to do this? Yeah, I'd like to have a fiddle with getting this support into d-i in time for Sarge if possible. I'm not currently aware of a mainstream Linux installer that does this, so we might score

Supporting probe of existing OSes

2004-03-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hi all, One of the (few) big things that needs to be done that was done to a reasonable extent in Woody is the detection of other operating systems and adding bootloader entries for them so one is able to get into the old operating system again. There are about 5 or 6 bugs in the BTS asking for th