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ssbfalcon

Newbie

Registered: 2008-12-25

Posts: 4

Detect other installed OS

Hi, excellent work guys!

I've been recommending Arch Linux to people left and right, and this project in particular is arguably the easiest way to deliver to them an Arch experience similar to my own...
(minus the fact that I'm running the kdemod-unstable repos XD )

I installed over my old Arch install using the Chakra Live CD (I wanted a fresh start again anyway...) and was pretty impressed (besides one bug that occurs after installation if I used non free drivers on my ati card... and a bit of usability work in the installation partitioner).  The resulting configurations were pretty close to what I would've done if I manually installed Arch the super fun way...

In any event, one thing that would improve usability is if there were a way to have Tribe detect whether or not the user has another operating system installed and give the option to create that entry in the grub install. 

Wasn't a problem for me, but there are some people who are afraid of breaking their Grub menu (I've done it before, but fortuantly, editing the lines at the grub prompt to fix something I broke isn't too much of a problem for me...), muchless really understand what Grub is and think that their "precious" Windows or Mac install disappeared...

But yeah, it would be a nifty feature...

And now that I suggested this... out of sheer curiosity, I'm probably going to look up how exactly that works...

Again, excellent job on the Live Cd and the always great kdemod packages!

boom1992

Core Team & Tools Developer

From: Arnsberg, Germany

Registered: 2008-12-17

Posts: 1,605

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Re: Detect other installed OS

True we should detect other installations and add them... automatically imo.

Lukas