Thank you for the clear and useful description of the process. A newbie like me needed a bit more particular description how to do all that. > 3) ... What I do and suggest for you is to install the new distro's > boot loader to the boot sector of its partition and chain your current > boot loader to that boot loader. This way your new distro will be > able to automatically set up any boot arguments for you in the boot > loader configuration. > To chain your current boot loader you use the same method as you use > for loading Windows. In GRUB create the following boot entry (change > the title and partition location as necessary):
What configuration files on /etc/ or in some other directory should one modify? Can you do that using some graphical tools or only editors like vi/vim? > See > http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Chainloading_in_Linux > for more info on this. Thanks for the address, I try to read and understand what they say .... > 4) .... Windows will take a little voodoo to make work, OH NO! It is very important for me that my always reliable WindowsXP works well as it does now. I do not direct any magic on it. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
