Re: feedback wanted alternative Debian installation system
Our team is now in deep QA mode, so I can't spare a single machine to
test PGI on real hardware. Is there any way to dry-run in isolated
environment?
I have some questions on features too. I feel like I'm nitpicking, but
if I get confused, maybe feature descriptions need to be more clear?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:38:29AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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> * Even when the X Window System is unavailable, PGI's text mode
> spares the Linux novice the intimidation of a shell prompt. The
> dialog utility is used to provide a friendly,
> menu-and-button-driven interface to the text-mode installer.
Does it mean that the invaluable shell in second virtual console is
gone? One thing I like about current Debian installer is that I can
switch there and tweak some things by hand.
> * PGI is boot-loader agnostic. On the x86 platform, PGI uses GNU
> GRUB for a friendly, menu-driven boot loader. GNU GRUB also
> supports a powerful command-line interface at boot time, if the
> user elects to use it. On the IA-64 platform, elilo is used, and
> the Linux kernel's interface to EFI variables are used to update
> the boot menu in the system firmware.
Boot-loader agnostic == GRUB only (for x86)? Does it provide an option
to install LILO instead?
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Dmitry Borodaenko
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