Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1983 mails)

[kepe@xxxxxxxx (Danny Kephart)]

On 02-Dec-98 Christopher A. Martin wrote:
> 
> Well, my one major complaint against SuSE is the lack of good
> documentation.  I
> know that RedHat kicks the crap out of SuSE with regard to this, and
> that SuSE
> better get its butt in gear if it wants to compete (in the US) with
> distributions supported by the likes of Netscape and Intel.

I totally disagree with you on this. SuSE has the best documentation
I have seen from any Linux distro, bar none.

> I have
> followed
> exactly the instructions for a boot menu under windoze95 on p. 39 of
> the SuSE
> 5.3 manual.  It doesn't work!!! The only way that I can get anything
> to work is
> to just call "loadlin hda6" from my autoexec.bat, and to forget about
> anything
> regarding linux in my config.sys.

Why don't you just use lilo as the bootmanager and have it default to
window$. Try looking at pages 117-138 of the same manual. It explains
lilo. My personal opinion: forget loadlin. Lilo is much better.
                                  
> 
> Can someone who has successfully gotten a boot menu running under
> win95
> PLEASE send me a copy of their autoexec.bat, config.sys, and the
> files in the
> loadlin directory of the root dos/win drive. ( I have to keep
> microslop windows
> around for the girlfriend)

No problem. She will still be able to use window$ 

> 
> I am giving SuSE every chance, but when something like this happens
> it is hard.
>

Not every chance; Give it another chance. ;)
 
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> 
> 
> THX in advance
> 
> chris
> 

Chris, you are most welcome.

Danny Kephart <kepe@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 02-Dec-98
Time: 08:55:25
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