[wellylug] CCUX Linux

[Bill Christiansen]

Yes it would overwrite Mandriva's lilo with grub unless you specified
to write the grub to the partition instead of the MBR and then updated
lilo to add an entry to boot CCUX. Although it may detect your
Mandriva and add it to it's grub menu, but I'm not sure about that as
I installed it on a system with no other OS. One thing you could try
is format a floppy disk vfat and then edit the first line (boot=) on
your Mandriva /etc/lilo.conf to say boot=/dev/fd0. Then run /sbin/lilo
(as root), this should write your Mandriva lilo to the floppy. Then
reboot and test if you can boot from the floppy to your Mandriva (it's
just a way of getting back into Mandriva if the MBR gets messed up,
but there are other ways such as livecd's / rescue cd's so it wouldn't
be difficult to recover your Mandriva).
CCUX (not sure how you say it) currently only has about 900 packages
in it's repository (but growing all the time) and all of the common
one 's like latest versions of firefox, thunderbird, OO, KDE 3.4
(Gnome 2.10 is coming soon). Packages are RPM based with a synaptic
front end (read as apt-get for CL lovers). Dev packages are available
and there's a build your own RPM howto so there's something for oldies
and newbies :-)

On 5/2/05, Rosemary McGillicuddy <mcgillra at infogen.net.nz> wrote:
> Bill Christiansen wrote:
> > If anyone's looking for a new distro to try, I just tried CCUX a new
> > German distro.
> > It has a nice tab based gui installer allowing you to set all the
> > install parameters before you click start.
> > 2.6.11 kernel
> > latest kde 3.4
> > Only loads what it needs so it's very zippy even on my old p2.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> Took a look at the website - it looks nice for a newbie (like me).
> Currently I have dual boot WinXP and Mandriva LE, but find that I rarely
> boot to win these days.  Only if need to use scanner, or Family Tree data.
> 
> My only concern is that mandriva uses lilo bootloader.  If I decided to
> try CCUX would GRUB override that, and if so, what would happen if I
> decided I hated CCUX (dreadful name, almost as bad as Mandriva)?
> 
> Thanks
> Rosemary
> 
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