Fedora core 3 and oralux

[John Heim]

I'm not sure what speculation you're talking about. But I  think few 
newbies are going to understand what you just wrote.  No offense intended 
to the newbies but you get people asking things like, "i'm getting access 
denied. Why is that?" Your response is "Access denied doing what?" -- which 
is a reasonable question, of course. But it just goes to show that newbies 
are newbies. They don't even know how to ask the right questions much less 
how to edit the installation script.

Although, Shaun seems to want to install to a removable HD. In that case, a 
lot of the advice I gave him is wrong. He would probably want to do a dual 
boot system and he might want to boot from an Oralux CD.  But he talked 
about his lack of time and I would not like the odds of him being able to 
configure something like that by himself very quickly.

So this may be a special case. But I still say for most people just 
starting out with linux, get yourself a used P/350 or 450 and install linux 
by accepting most (if not all) the default values.

At 12:26 PM 2/25/2005, Janina Sajka 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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