FC4t2 no good without LILO

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Tue Apr 12 23:28:25 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-12-04 at 19:21 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> Dana Lacoste said:
> [snip]
> > if redhat (this is a core issue, they control core) is desiring that lilo
> > be phased out (not a bad idea in itself) and that disk druid be the
> > partition editor of choice (far prettier and easier to use than sfdisk! :)
> > and that other tools that used to work but suck in comparison to modern
> > tools be eliminated, then can we at least make a "deprecated" list and say
> > "these tools will be eliminated from
> > the final distribution [once the test releases are done] so if you need
> > them can you let us know so we can work out the bugs in the tools we want
> > to use instead"?
> 
> lilo has been deprecated since the FC1 release (and actually removed from
> one of the pre-FC1 tests, IIRC).

Can we please get it back?

> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html
> 
> fdisk was removed from the Anaconda GUI in RHL 9.
> 

Can we please keep it?

> -- 
> William Hooper





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