Best YUM configuration?

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Sat May 27 13:23:54 UTC 2006


Words by Timothy Murphy [Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:02:27PM +0100]:
> Jose Celestino wrote:
> 
> >> >> As a side question, I haven't been able to find a package for lilo in
> >> >> any of the standard yum repositories, and it doesn't appear to be on
> >> >> the
> >> >> system (it wasn't an option in the installer).  Does such a package
> >> >> exist, and if so, where?
> >> > 
> >> > Not with FC5.  lilo has a lot of limitations that grub dispenses with.
> >> > FC4 and FC5 only offer grub as a boot loader.
> >> 
> >> I use grub exclusively, and consider it greatly superior to LILO
> >> (which I used to use).
> >> However, I don't see why people who want to use LILO should not do so.
> >> 
> > 
> > Get another repo, compile from source or change to grub. It is not humanly
> > possible to package everything.
> 
> As I said, I do not use LILO, and do not wish to,
> so your response is wide of the mark.
> 

Right. It wasn't you. Sorry, woke up 1 minute ago :/

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