Re: Bug#93482: cd install
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:58:50AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>Le Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:44:58PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo ?crivait:
>> I don't think it will be radically changing in woody. I would hope
>> perhaps the debian-cd team could perhaps work out a better way to
>> switch between the flavors rather than booting from a different CD.
>> Grub could be used, for instance, offering a menu.
>
>Has someone from debian-cd already tried something like that ?
>Does grub read iso filesystem ? (i know it manages ext2 and reiserfs)
I tried something similar using a CD boot-manager type program written
by Tom Lees a couple of years ago, but it didn't seem to work very
well because of crap PC BIOS issues. Grub sounds a better bet if it
can be made to cope with iso9660.
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