[svlug] gui lilo.. - pics

Alvin Oga alvin at planet.fef.com
Thu Oct 19 20:17:02 PDT 2000


hi ya...

> Jeesh, welcome to the new milenium.
> The lowest configuration in a new PC you can get these days is like 32MB,
> PII-300Mhz, AGP graphics.
> if not better.

and the hardware is free if the telecommuters from home
would signup for a year or three from their other favorite isps ??

> mmmm. how about you turn on your computer and theres a nice picture of the
> linux logo or the windows logo and you select the one you want.

I'd like to see/find some code of how to change the gif files
that is shown/displayed .... sorta like what turbolinux does too
and replace the boot messsages with the graphics pics...

> Lilo is far from intuitive. You're greeted with "lilo: []"
> and the user is just to assume they have to type a word, but what word?
> oh, press the "TAB" key -- why of course! that was obvious.
> whatever with you and your outdated ideals.

everything is obvious.....( imho ) once you/we know what to do/type/click...

have fun linuxing
alvin





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