Jose Celestino wrote: >> >> As a side question, I haven't been able to find a package for lilo in >> >> any of the standard yum repositories, and it doesn't appear to be on >> >> the >> >> system (it wasn't an option in the installer). Does such a package >> >> exist, and if so, where? >> > >> > Not with FC5. lilo has a lot of limitations that grub dispenses with. >> > FC4 and FC5 only offer grub as a boot loader. >> >> I use grub exclusively, and consider it greatly superior to LILO >> (which I used to use). >> However, I don't see why people who want to use LILO should not do so. >> > > Get another repo, compile from source or change to grub. It is not humanly > possible to package everything. As I said, I do not use LILO, and do not wish to, so your response is wide of the mark. However, the reason given for not offering LILO as a yum package was not that it was too much trouble but rather that it was not good for you. There is a big difference. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
