Fedora core 3 and oralux

Shaun Everiss shaun.e at xtra.co.nz
Fri Feb 25 18:39:51 UTC 2005


what is the ctrlg character?
what position is it on the keyboard and what do I push to get that?
At 07:26 a.m. 26/02/2005, you wrote:
>No speculation is necessary. The Fedora/Redhat installer scripts have
>long supported a simple screen where one can identify the other OS one
>wants to have bootable in the boot loader.
>
>Now, there are a few tricks to making this accessible. And, they're not
>rocket science either.
>
>e.g. comment off the splash screen and the hidden menu directives, and
>put a Ctrl-G in the title.
>
>How hard is that?
>
>John Heim writes:
>> At 09:29 AM 2/25/2005, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> >I agree with the advice to put Linux on its own machine, but not for any
>> >difficulty with configuring dual boot systems. Actually, it's not that
>> >hard to put a reasonably accesible dual boot system together.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But you're not a new user. I think installing linux is daunting enough 
>> without that additional complication.
>> 
>> I haven't installed anything but debian for a couple of years but I know 
>> the debian installer gives you options to create a dule-boot system.  Some 
>> of the other installers may be even easier. But a new user is going to want 
>> to take all the defaults. The Red Hat 7.3 installer pretty much allowed you 
>> to do that and it got even better in 8 and 9. By now, you should be able to 
>> install fedora by just pressing enter over and over.
>> 
>> I think if a newbie tries to do a dual-boot installation it's going to ask 
>> questions they are not going to know how to answer.
>> 
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