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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 19:25, Peter L-J wrote:
I am slowly moving to Linux, using currently Red Hat 9. (This email is an example of the slow migration). However it appears that Fedora is a better bet than Red Hat 9. Does any one recommend not moving to Fedora?
For patches etc you will have to move away from RH9 since it is no longer supported. I have now installed Fedora Core 2 on two PC's at work and one at home. No problems so far but be aware that dual-booting with MS XP (not sure if its only XP) has MEGA problems. It seems that grub trashes the master boot record in some way and causes it to become impossible (without some serious fiddling) to boot XP. For the PC which had XP on it...it now doesn't! I couldn't be bothered with trying to get it to dual-boot so just let it install FC2 over the whole disk. In that respect I am surprised they released FC2 unless it simply wasn't a known problem during testing. Hopefully the problem will be fixed and patched so that people can install FC2 without writing the MBR; download the patches and then write it (with grub). For the moment I would say that if you are not dual-booting then FC2 is worth trying, but if you need to dual-boot then be very much aware of the MBR/grub problem. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.