[YLUG] Grub

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 10:55:33 GMT 2007


On 10/12/2007, Arthur Clune <arthur at clune.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 10 Dec 2007, at 09:05, Mike Cohler wrote:
>
> > In principle FC4 to F8 is perfectly reasonable - but see below.
>
> I don't normally do 'me too' posts, but Mike's advice is spot
> on here. You need more ram and a backup/erase/install
> plan is going to be better in the long run than upgrading.
>
> Two points I'll add (to make it worthwhile sending this
> email!):
>
> 1) If you want something that will just continue to run and
> not need updating every 12 months, consider putting
> Centos on instead (it's RedHat Advanced Server minus
> the branding) if you want to stay in the RedHat world.
>
> Depends if you want the box to play with linux on or
> to just get some work done.
>
> 2) Lilo v grub. As a long time lilo user as well, I've
> bitten the bullet and learnt grub. It's where the rest
> of the world has gone.
>
> Arthur
>
> Thanks Arthur - good advice indeed.
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