grub question on fedora core 6 and debian etch system

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

I wish I could help with all that, but I can't.  Thought I should at least let you know that, though, and hope somebody else can.  

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Gawronski" <nick at nickgawronski.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: grub question on fedora core 6 and debian etch system


> Hi, Do you think it is better to uninstall the grub boot loader packages
> from my debian system and let fedora core 6 handle the booting and will
> it even detect debian? Should I be able to run binaries that were compiled
> on fedora core 6 on debian etch what about running binaries compiled on
> etch under fedora core 6?  As it says in the how to should I still add the
> exclude line for the kernels if I am going to follow the directions for
> having yum update my speakup modified kernel updates?  When yum does
> update a kernel will it remove the old version or just keep the old
> version and I will need to remove it manually? On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Albert
> E. Sten-Clanton wrote:
> 
> > Yes, last I checked, there's no choice for installing everything, as there was with FC3.  I believe that to install everything you must go into custom install and make sure you select everything listed there.  I had selected all of the three groupings before going to the custom install, and found that those groupings still left things out.  So in short, you can do it, as far as I could tell, it's just more of a pain in the ass--needlessly, I suspect.
> >
> > Al
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nick Gawronski" <nick at nickgawronski.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:39 PM
> > Subject: grub question on fedora core 6 and debian etch system
> >
> >
> > > Hi, I am going to be receiving the fedora core 6 DVD son in the mail and
> > > was wondering a few things.  First I heard from someone on this list I
> > > forget who that now there is no longer a choice for installing everything.
> > > Is this true and if I do infact want to install everything what is the
> > > best way to go about it?  Also, and my main point for writing is I have
> > > debian etch installed on /dev/hda2 and will be installing fedora core 6 on
> > > /dev/hda3 with both of them sharing swap space on /dev/hda1.  What is
> > > easier, having the fedora core 6 installer install grub on my system or
> > > not install grub on the fedora core side of things and just edit the
> > > menu.lst file after my fedora core 6 installation?  As soon as that how to
> > > is updated for fedora core 6 on speakupmodified.org things would be even
> > > better.  Any help in this matter would be great!
> > >
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