Re: <rant> grub <\rant>
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote:
> Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Gerd Arlitt wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The info pages are fine but i needed more info and found it in the
> > > > May 2001 Linux Journal and at the IBM linux tutorials site:
> > > > http://www.cn.ibm.com/developerWorks/education/linux/l-grub_eng/
> > > >
> > >
> > > This site did not work for me "Directory browsing failed - access forbidden"
> > >
> > Do a search for "grub" under the Linux section on developerWorks.
> > It's a tutorial that you'll have to register for.
> >
>
> This is all fine, and this is all in the "we are intelligent, we can
> figure it out" spirit.
> But basic installation of software should _not_ be hard to figure out,
> there are probably plenty more programs this applies to, and my guess is
> grub will be fixed, if not by the programmers of it, then by the
> distributions that will distribute it, by means of the install scripts
> and/or configuration scripts.
Well, this may be true - but the discussion list exists to help
people deal with Debian GNU/Linux AS IT IS, not as you WISH it was.
Griping about it DOES NOT HELP. Unless you have a useful suggestion,
why not keep it to yourself? "Better documentation, easier to use"
is NOT a suggestion - and it's certainly not a new idea.
Since I could find no reason why you felt the need to switch from LILO
to Grub, was LILO not working for you? If LILO worked, why switch?
> If I am not running Irix, MacOS (or other weird stuff) and Linux on one
> box it just should not be any trouble to configure.
I want to see the box that runs both IRIX and MacOS... :)
> I am probably singing a different tune than is commonly sung in the
> linux community, but I do think it is about time for that tune:)
>
> Enough:-)
Yes, it certainly is.
Take care,
Zonker
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