[YLUG] Grub

[Nicholas Thomas]

Mike Cohler wrote:
> On 09/12/2007, *Mike Cohler* <mike.cohler at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mike.cohler at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/12/2007, *Dr P Dupre* <pd520 at york.ac.uk
>     <mailto:pd520 at york.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Mike,
>
>         Thank for the suggestions.
>         I will probably install a FC8 during christmas time.
>         Do you know if it requires grub only (or can run with lilo)
>         and if I can
>         install more than 16 partitions ?
>
>         Thank. 
>
>
>     OK Patrick - I have always used grub and never had a problem with
>     it.  If you do a clean install then grub gets installed by
>     default.  I don;t know the answer to the question about any
>     maximum  number of partitions -  I have regularly installed
>
>
> By the way if you are installing F8 in a week or two it is always 
> worth reading the release notes first, and also referring to
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common 
> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common> for commonly encountered 
> issues.
>
> For some machines the F8 install may hang at an early stage and there 
> are simple workarounds - but once the install is going then I have not 
> had any problems with the install completing successfully through 
> first boot. Also make sure you carefully select all the packages you 
> want installed during the install - including all optional packages. I 
> do know that there have been some bad problems when people have tried 
> to do yum upgrades as opposed to clean installs due to depsolve issues 
> with anaconda. However I always do clean installs and have not had any 
> problems with F7 or F8 - though if your machine has less than 512MB 
> RAM then you may find that this is problematic. It is possible to 
> install via the livecd for machines with 256MB RAM but even then I 
> would recommend a memory upgrade to at least 512MB.  These days when 
> buying a new machine I would not get less than 2GB RAM and that way 
> you will be safe for installs for a few years at least.
>
> -- 
> mike
>   
oO - How much?!

Back when I was a lad, 32MB was plenty. Even now, 128MB suits fine.

/Nick