29 Apr
2009
29 Apr
'09
8:08 a.m.
Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
small history,
I would appreciate any hints or (links to) simple and clear instructions
on the net. I am ready to reinstall all the OS's if needed. I start to
understand that a small separate /boot partition would be very useful,
but I don't have a clue how to set it up.
The manual for Sidux is getting bigger quite quickly, try:
http://manual.sidux.com/en/sys-admin-grub-bootman2-en.htm#what-is-grub
That should help you understand Grub, your latest install probably set
Grub to look in it's /boot directory, so that is the menu.lst that it is
currently working from, but this manual tells you how to change that and
gives some background.
Sidux is a distribution which sticks very closely to Sid [the most
current version of Debian] but holds back or tweaks some packages which
are not behaving, they keep a small repository of these debs, and a
warnings noticeboard, but otherwise use the Sid repositories so a
dist-upgrade keeps you up-to-date as often as you wish.
I've had good luck with it installing on new machines, it has its own
kernel or you can use the current Sid one, and switch reasonable easily
between them. There is an audio group working in Sidux.
Simon