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Skriven 2004-07-17 06:51:00 av Maurice Kinal (1:153/401.1)
     Kommentar till en text av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
Ärende: SuSe 9.1 distro
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Hey Russell!

Jul 16 18:11 04, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Well, against all advice, I partioned it with Linux "cfdisk", 

All I ever use is the util-linux stuff (fdisk).

 RT> installed 
 RT> WIN98SE, a few years later upgraded that install to XP, XP lasted all 
 RT> of 2 
 RT> months, got uninstalled, WIN98SE re-installed, upgraded to XP, to 
 RT> test 
 RT> something with my TV card, a week later, it came off again, and WIN98 
 RT> is back 
 RT> on.

Heh, heh.  Yeah the neighbour and a few others around here refuse to upgrade
too.  That makes it tough when looking at new hardware and not being able to
recompile Win98 kernels eh?  :-)

 RT> Other than having to boot with the install CD so I could run "lilo" 
 RT> to 
 RT> re-instate it as my boot loader, no hassles.

Yeah.  That happens quite a bit especialy with XP.

 RT> Never been one to boot Linux from NT/W2000/XP, when I dual boot, lilo 
 RT> is the 
 RT> boot loader of choice, tho the SuSE 9.1 which I recently installed 
 RT> uses GRUB, 
 RT> which has not givern me problems yet, tho, I would rather it did not, 
 RT> install 
 RT> GRUB, but Lilo instead.

I have yet to play with grub.  Lilo does exactly what I need it to do so I
haven't been inspired to look for a replacement for it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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