[MLUG] With a month to go to SFD...

[- M e l -]

Hi Mark
Don't think for one second it didn't cross my mind.  I've been playing with
zenity, cdialog, gdialog, Xdialog, dialog and whiptail too, and here's a couple
of things for you:
* whiptail is on Beatrix (and AFAIK TOCD3)
* the beatrix installer runs on gdialog (aka Zenity)
* There's an awful lack of Zenity docs but to model it on Beatrix would work.

* Would like if possible to use Grub, but I agree, Lilo is easier to setup.

* Slackware still uses it, but gets slagged for it!
Will copy others for input.  Would rather not have to do a hack job if there's
something well tested out there.  Reason is, we don't know what people are going
to be installing it on, and have to err on the side of caution.
Mel
ps: Anything happening SFD in Athlone?
pps: copying the group =:-)


>Hey Mel,
>
>Just a suggestion re: the grub problem.
>
>Why not use lilo? its easier to configure (script wise) and there is
>probably an installer for it (there is a debian-installer for it)
>
>If all else fails you could take the BASH script used in slackware for
>configuring lilo (bash + dialog/whiptail)
>
>But that is only if you get stuck.
>
>If you need any help with this let me know.
>
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Mark
>
>
>>
>> All
>>
>> Here's a link...!  http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/McWeeney/SU-OpenCD3

>>
>> Appreciate all the feedback and sympathise entirely with all woes relating

>> to
>> XP... what a pig of an interface and that's before you get to patents and

>> business
>> practices, but I'm coming back of this tangent now!
>>
>> The biggest headache as I see it is the lack of an installer for TOCD3.
>> Very
>> briefly so you know... "The OpenCD 3" is more-or-less Gnoppix which IS now

>> Hoary
>> Hedgehog.  Still with this?  Good!  Now, the Gnoppix website includes a
>> recent
>> 'Morphix installer' which should work, and appears to, but it makes a
>> dog's
>> dinner of doing Grub and I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.
>>
>> Any technical help trying stuff on this would be really helpful because
>> I'm
>> ploughing time into it (almost) at the expense of personal hygiene :-O
>> -and
>> I'm considering an experiment where I use UnionFS to superimpose (or
>> underimpose)
>> the Beatrix (which is ALSO Hoary, only totally stripped down) onto the
>> open
>> CD.
>>
>> Padraig's idea about burning on the fly, on the spot is a runner, but it

>> would
>> be nice to have buffer supplies as well.  What I'm focused on is what
>> these
>> supplies are of.
>>
>> First one to fix the problem on the link at the top, gets a free ice cream

>> on
>> SFD =:-?
>> Mel
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