Re: installing/using grub-legacy
On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote:
> On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 19:02:29 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 23 October 2015 18:02:48 David Wright wrote:
> > > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com):
> > > > In case I got the names wrong or muddled:
> > > >
> > > > Isn't that for GRUB2 not GRUB1?
> > >
> > > The oldest Grub I still have installed is 1.99 so I
> > > did download grub-legacy_0.97-67_i386.deb just to
> > > check before I posted. Redownloading that, I can see
> > > grub-legacy_0.97-67_i386.deb/deb://CONTENTS/usr/sbin
> > > contains grub-install 11620 Jan 29 2013 which
> > > is a script including the lines:
>
> [Snipped: the grub-install script for grub-legacy]
>
> > Thanks, David. :-)
> >
> > As you see, I am busily forgetting it. But I could/should have done
> > what you did. :-(
>
> 'apt-get download <package>' is a good way to get a package and examine
> its contents. Nothing is installed and it can be deleted afterwards.
>
> To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist in Debian. They don't really
> exist under those names on the GNU website either or in the
> documentation. It is GRUB or GRUB-legacy. People like harking back to a
> time long past though.
Yes, I do know that - see my first email. But GRUB-PC is also an obsolete
name - and at least you understood what I meant by GRUB1 and GRUB2 however
incorrect the nomenclature - and I did know it was incorrect/obsolete. I was
just trying to be unambiguous. In which I succeeded. Once you just
say "GRUB", you have to know to which version of Debian one is referring, to
know which GRUB is meant.
Lisi
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