On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:53:50PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > 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? You could try VMWare, but I haven't tested this since I don't own a copy of it. > 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: > <...> > > * 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? Nope, it's still there. And four more on VTs 3 through 6. > > * 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? This isn't implemented but the hooks are in place. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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