Re: proposal for less scary grub installation
Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> _Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?
Install GRUB for managing your system boot?
Maybe less scary for Bob's and for geeks girlfriends...:-)
> _Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?
Ditto.
> The following operating systems have been detected on this computer:
> ${OS_LIST}
> .
> If this is all of your other operating systems, it should be safe to
> install the boot loader to the master boot record of your first hard
> drive. You will be able to choose among the operating systems listed
> above, and your new Debian installation, when the computer boots.
When your computer will reboot, you will be prompted for booting
one these operating systems or your new Debian installation.
> Template: grub-installer/bootdev
> Type: string
> _Description: Device for boot loader installation:
> You need to make the newly installed Debian system bootable, by installing
> the GRUB bootloader on a bootable device. The usual way to do this is to
> install GRUB on the master boot record of your first hard drive. If you
> prefer, you can install grub to elsewhere on the drive, or to another
> drive, or even to a floppy.
s/grub/GRUB
s/to elsewhere/elsewhere...but you are the native English speaker
here..:-)
> Probably all of the above would be displayed at high priority, although
> the first could conceivably only be asked at low priority, depending on
> how confident we are that the probe won't miss operating systems.
Hmmm. I tend to prefer high for everything.
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