Best YUM configuration?
Jose Celestino
japc at co.sapo.pt
Sat May 27 12:59:34 UTC 2006
Words by Timothy Murphy [Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:46:22PM +0100]:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> >> As a side question, I haven't been able to find a package for lilo in
> >> any of the standard yum repositories, and it doesn't appear to be on the
> >> system (it wasn't an option in the installer). Does such a package
> >> exist, and if so, where?
> >
> > Not with FC5. lilo has a lot of limitations that grub dispenses with.
> > FC4 and FC5 only offer grub as a boot loader.
>
> I use grub exclusively, and consider it greatly superior to LILO
> (which I used to use).
> However, I don't see why people who want to use LILO should not do so.
>
Get another repo, compile from source or change to grub. It is not humanly
possible to package everything.
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