Re: reasons to ditch LILO before upgrading to jessie?
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, at 18:25, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 09 Jul 2016 at 16:41:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> Long live choice!
>
> For choice to exist it does not have to be presented as such in the
> installer.
>
Your point is well taken. The installer does not offer choice in everything,
just the big things. A choice of desktop, for example. However, even
desktop choice is not presented in the installation steps. It's hidden
in installer options. For example, I generally install with
expert desktop=xfce
and then, if I select "Desktop Environment" in tasksel, I get an xfce
desktop instead of a gnome3 desktop. Perhaps the boot loader choice could be
handled in a similar fashion. Something like
expert desktop=xfce bootloader=lilo
with the defaults being gnome3 and grub2, respectively.
(Dare I suggest adding initsystem=sysvinit as an option too? No, I better not.
I don't want to get that flame war going again.)
Peace.
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