Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:57:29 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? Message-ID: <199603092157.NAA09173@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <199603090501.VAA08753@tribe.com> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 9, 96 04:02:49 pm
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> > The fact that MS-DOS has a better fdisk program than FreeBSD is shameful. > > While we're at it, how about integrating the booteasy functionality? > > Personally, I miss Linux's LILO very much. Well, actually I still use it > > instead of booteasy. > > I don't think LILO is anywhere near as good as booteasy. > For one, there's only a Unix/Linux interface, AFAIK. Yes, a graphical interface for configuring would be a big improvement for LILO... but on the other hand, LILO's human readable configuration file, where you can see exactly what you're telling it to do, is a big improvement over the cryptic disklabel command. > Another, is LILO doesn't give a menu (by default). Uh, not a big deal. Press the tab key. > I can boot everything but Linux with booteasy, across two HD's. > Why do we need LILO ? :-) I can boot everything, *including* FreeBSD, with LILO, across two hard disks, one being IDE and the other SCSI. I'm unconvinced that LILO isn't substantially better than booteasy. -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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