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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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