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> To: Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>
> From: juhl@eisenstein.dk
> Subject: Re: [slackware-alphadevel]
download server on the way!
> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 05:10:08 CET
> -----
> > > On the topic of installation.. aboot or
> MILO? That will be a fun one to
> > > figure out, since aboot is a little
more
> complicated to install, but is
> > > faster.
> >
> > Well, I've got aboot going on my machine.
> I haven't really played with
> > MILO yet. This will be something where
> I'll probably need some help
> > or explanations or something. I might
need
> to get Patrick's Alpha
> > (yes, he has one) and play with it.
> >
>
> As far as I understand it, "aboot" can only
> run from the SRM console whereas "MILO" can
> run from both ARC and SRM. So machines with
> both ARC and SRM have a choice. Machines
with
> only SRM also have a choise while machine
> with only ARC have to use "MILO".
>
> As I myself have always used the SRM
console
> and aboot I can't say anything about the
> advantages of one over the other (and I
could
> be wrong about the ARC/SRM list above), but
> it seems like we'll have to use MILO for
> those machines without an SRM console. And
to
> make the boot experience as similar as
> possible on all machines I suppose we ought
> to also use MILO on the rest of the boxes
> (although I sort of like aboot and have
> gotten quite used to it, but it never hurts
> to learn something new ;).
> Giving people the choice between aboot and
> MILO is ofcourse the optimal situation, but
> it'll require more work to create/maintain
> twice the number of boot disks.
>
>
> -- Jesper Juhl
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