You astound me. Do you think the computer knows the difference between you and anyone else when you type on the keyboard? What are you smoking? This is what makes words like "I" meaningless. And, yes, it matters. Some things only root can do, and that's undoubtedly the nub of this issue these last few days. Hmmm, haven't ever met anyone named root. John Heim writes: > I'm not sure what speculation you're talking about. But I think few > newbies are going to understand what you just wrote. No offense intended > to the newbies but you get people asking things like, "i'm getting access > denied. Why is that?" Your response is "Access denied doing what?" -- which > is a reasonable question, of course. But it just goes to show that newbies > are newbies. They don't even know how to ask the right questions much less > how to edit the installation script. > > Although, Shaun seems to want to install to a removable HD. In that case, a > lot of the advice I gave him is wrong. He would probably want to do a dual > boot system and he might want to boot from an Oralux CD. But he talked > about his lack of time and I would not like the odds of him being able to > configure something like that by himself very quickly. > > So this may be a special case. But I still say for most people just > starting out with linux, get yourself a used P/350 or 450 and install linux > by accepting most (if not all) the default values. > > At 12:26 PM 2/25/2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > >No speculation is necessary. The Fedora/Redhat installer scripts have > >long supported a simple screen where one can identify the other OS one > >wants to have bootable in the boot loader. > > > >Now, there are a few tricks to making this accessible. And, they're not > >rocket science either. > > > >e.g. comment off the splash screen and the hidden menu directives, and > >put a Ctrl-G in the title. > > > >How hard is that? > > > >John Heim writes: > >> At 09:29 AM 2/25/2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > >> >I agree with the advice to put Linux on its own machine, but not for any > >> >difficulty with configuring dual boot systems. Actually, it's not that > >> >hard to put a reasonably accesible dual boot system together. > >> > >> > >> > >> But you're not a new user. I think installing linux is daunting enough > >> without that additional complication. > >> > >> I haven't installed anything but debian for a couple of years but I know > >> the debian installer gives you options to create a dule-boot system. > >Some > >> of the other installers may be even easier. But a new user is going to > >want > >> to take all the defaults. The Red Hat 7.3 installer pretty much allowed > >you > >> to do that and it got even better in 8 and 9. By now, you should be > >able to > >> install fedora by just pressing enter over and over. > >> > >> I think if a newbie tries to do a dual-boot installation it's going to > >ask > >> questions they are not going to know how to answer. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > >-- > > > >Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > >Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > > >Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > >janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org > > > >If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list