Re: fedora bug fixes here

From: rblah (deepcover_at_mpx.com.au)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:04:09 +0000

Potty mouth.

P.T. Breuer wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.help Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>"Nick Ballard" <nrballardco@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>news:109bb5af.0311182026.18e39c4e@posting.google.com...
>>
>>>Sorry. I've never worked with lilo before, and the help file wasn't
>>>at all helpful.
>>>
>>>ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es (P.T. Breuer) wrote in message
>>
>>news:<2tpcpb.ii4.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>...
>>
>>>>>LNX-BBC
>>>>># mount -o remount,rw /mnt/rw/discs/disc0/part5
>>>>># cd /mnt/discs/disc0/part5
>>>>>/part5# lilo
>>>>
>>>>Wrong. The command is
>>>>
>>>> lilo -r /mnt/rw/discs/disc0/part5
>>>>
>>>
>>>What does -r do? Is this the only line I need to use?
>
>
>>Ignore Peter. His advice is often blatantly wrong, and even if vaguely
>>correct is so loaded with important parts left out that it's useless.
>
>
> Crawl back under the stone on the alien world you oozed out of. You
> offer no advice here that I did not already supply, and you have the
> *cheek* to load your void homily with the above gratuitous insults.
>
>
>
>>>>>/part5# lilo -C etc/lilo.conf -b boot/map
>>>>
>>>>Getting better. You got something against "-r"?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Will -r find the config file, or will I also need -C and -b?
>
>
>>Sort of: Read the manual page: "-r" does a "chroot" before anything else,
>
>
> Not "sort of". It will do everything. There is nothing else to be done.
>
>
>>and in this case is syntactically very similar to:
>
>
>> chroot /mnt/rw/disks/disc0/part5 "lilo"
>
>
> What's the point of saying that when I already told him so!
>
>
>>>>You could have saved yourself the trouble of any switches at all
>>>>simply by a chroot /mnt/rw/discs/disc0/part5.
>
>
>>>>Talk about being an annoying trouble-causing human!
>>>
>>>It is this kind of arrogance that discourages people from using Linux
>>>at all. Keep it up...MSFT is looking for people like you.
>
>
>>Unfortunately, you're correct. Peter is part of the arrogant "You're too
>
>
> You discourage me from visiting the alien slimehole you bugged out of.
> Go back to it. Stay in it. Do not move. If your mandibles feel the urge
> to wiggle, bind them shut with fecal material.
>
> You may take that as an insult.
>
> Peter

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