Re: woody Debian Installer plans
Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:39:11AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> > After a reboot you will be in your native environent, i guess a postinst
> > or something will have to be run in the native environment to do some
> > fine tuning.
>
> I am not sure if this works well with the Hurd. Doesn't it have some
> extensions to the Linux filesystem model? I don't think a Linux install
> can support it in that case.
>
mke2fs can format for the HURD, in fact you install the HURD from
linux right now. Or do get something wrong here?
> > As far as bootloaders goes, i dont think it will be a problem using
> > different bootloaders, every different architecture has a different one
> > for initial booting anyway. But i realise grub will have to be installed
> > for the hurd, i remember talk some time ago about using it for linux,
> > cant remember what happened about it.
>
> If you ask me, let's make that a goal for the woody installer. We should
> support Grub and make it the default but have lilo in there as fallback
> in case grub fails.
>
ACK.
Regards, Andy
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