FC4t2 no good without LILO

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 12 23:21:44 UTC 2005


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).

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.

-- 
William Hooper




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