[Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes

[Martin Stricker]

Devon wrote:

> On Monday 25 March 2002 08:39 am, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> > Hello, all
> >
> > what should we say if asked "will miniconda/slinky damage
> > my other Win *9x/NT/2K/XP partition"?
> 
> Miniconda, just like the stock Red Hat installer asks where you want
> to install the boot loader. It also detects (at least) a windows
> install and adds an entry to dual boot.

But it's quite dumb there: *Any* primary FAT/VFAT/VFAT32 or NTFS
partition will show up there, there is no real OS-probing. If I find
this behavior in Skipjack, too, I'll bugzilla it.

> Slinky asks before running Lilo, gives the option to opt out, and
> doesn't even attempt to detect another OS.
> However, it does offer to create a boot disk.
> I could also easily add an option to write lilo to a floppy.

I think for now slinky doesn't need OS detection - before that it must
be able to use other partitions than the default /dev/hda[1-3]. If there
already is a Windows it'll sit in /dev/hda1 and maybe /dev/hda5.

Devon, take the time you need for this, you do an *outstanding* job
already!!!

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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