Message-Id: <199702112150.WAA11727@magigimmix.xs4all.nl> From: "yeep" To: "Weiqi Gao" , Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:38:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk > >If GRUB is like LILO, it is hardly easy. At least not for your > >average Joe user. It'll be fine for techie's, but not for > >others. I would personally prefer a menu based system bundled > >with OD. LILO is boring and leaves much chance for bungling in > >inexperienced hands. Heck it is even easy to mess up if you've > >used it for years! > > Hmmm... I wouldn't want my average Joe User to mess around with their > MBRs, period. > > When I said grub was as easy as LILO, I meant that I could start using grub > fifteen minutes after I had downloaded it, having learned LILO in my Linux > "training classes" previously. > > Although I admit that a menuing system front end for grub (or its > substitute) in DOS (a l` Slackware installation menu) would be nice. Maybe > we can use the 4DOS box drawing commands to do it. Uhm, Isn't the idea of grub to load the OS? Like, I mean 4DOS woulnd't even be loaded when grub "does it's thing" Yeep