-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 18:42, Ghod wrote: > I've just seen too many LI.................. use GRUB, you'll never see it again :-) > I was offering REAL advice for a NEWBIE.. make a CD copy of the ISO so > you have a BACKUP media in case of problems. In itself that is good advice, since you will need to boot from CD in case of install disaster. Something else I have done is formatted an old 4GB HDD with ext3 and copied the ISOs to there, using it as a kind of thick DVD to install from. > that is my point, if you want to run them down the short-cut path.. so > be it. As I explained at length, if I have important data I swap out the HDD. > it just means you like short-cuts for newbs too. Redhat put HDD installs in, it exists, people will use it. I used it, it worked fine. That doesn't mean it is failproof, my experience is one more straw in the wind. Since I have other machines I could recover from an install failure. If you only have one machine then paranoia is a good setting as you suggest. > and installing Linux on a machine without CD-ROM or Floppy.. now THAT > must have been a real jewel.. hope it never crashes.. since you would > never be able to install ANYTHING back on it. Not sure where that came from, but my current work is with an Embedded Fedora which boots off a NBD device via PXE -- this motherboard has NO local storage other than the BIOS itself. Yet I can do what I like with its filesystem since its a file on an NBD server. More things on Heaven and Earth. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/43LUjKeDCxMJCTIRArzFAJ9rdgNZwMJbvJPCkUlkUik4oyGynwCgj3Q2 TLC4+c6dvW2UJeGuArQ+X8g= =XyoV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
