Rudolf Polzer graced us by uttering:
> Scripsit ille Tim Hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx>:
>> For one, he was an active and upstanding member of a prominent
>> programming channel, so I couldn't be sure if his motives were
>> bene- or malevolent.  It was my instincts that just said "No
>> thanks."
> 
> That's what I also think about RPMs. Not that they're generally
> bad, but I want to decide where to install an application to. I
> only take DEBs from a Debian mirror and install RPMs manually
> (not using alien) into some temporary directory. Good that it's
> possible to manually extract them...

I don't have a Debian distro (which apparently makes me a "less
pure" linux guy, but hey), and the only rpms I currently deal in
are off the distribution installation discs.  99% of the other
software is 'make && make test && make install'ed.

>> > Which is really hard with the explorer.
>> > You can change the shell, but any program that has
>> > a file-open dialog will use the Explorer for that.
>> 
>> With Windows Explorer, yes.
>> 
>> But:
>> 
>> $ rm -rf /mnt/c/windows/system/vmm32*
>> 
>> ;)
> 
> You also use /mnt/c? I still have that mount point, but something has
> happened to it, as visible in my fstab:

No, I actually use /dos, but /mnt/c seemed a little less
confusing, just in case there's anyone else still with us in this
thread...  ;)

>| /dev/hda3 /mnt/c ext3 defaults 0 0
> 
> But fdisk still shows:
> 
>| /dev/hda3   *       766       914   1196842+   6  FAT16
> 
> I don't know what this partition type stuff is good for. There
> don't seem to be problems if the type is wrong...

Here are the entries for the FAT32 filesystems on my box. They
appear to use vfat rather than FAT*; this is probably just a
variance in the distributions.  Unfortunately, I have no
explanation for the behaviour of your system's mounting.

/dev/hda1       /dos    vfat    user 0 2
/dev/hda5       /mp3    vfat    user 0 2

>> > But even worse about Windows:
>> > you cannot change the window manager.
>> 
>> Technically: no.
>> Effectively: /sbin/lilo && reboot
> 
> Bad command or file name.
> 
> Or does lilo run in cygwin? I never tried.

I'm not sure, but I'm not sure it would be an appropriate program
to have in cygwin.

> You just assumed you already have solved the problem...

Well, it assumes linux is installed, and that /etc/lilo.conf sets
the linux partition to be default, yes.

Doesn't this solve the problems caused by Windows?  ;)

Tim Hammerquist
-- 
You can lead a boss to a decision, but you can't make him think.
    -- Simon, BOFH