[wellylug] CCUX Linux

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

Bill Christiansen wrote:
> 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).

Apparently the another way is to use lilo and add a stanza for CCUX ...

> 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). 

Sounds like it's got everything I need and use ... mandriva has heaps of 
things I don't touch.

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 :-)

Don't think I'll be looking at dev packages until I can afford a second 
computer for just 'playing' :-)

Any chance you could send me a copy if I send you CDs?   If so how many 
does it take?

regards

Rosemary

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