> -----Original Message----- > From: Heikki Pesonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 30 January 2006 5:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Speaking of trying other distros (WAS: Re: > [newbie] Remind me why I am here) > > 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_Multimedi > > a/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 > ____________________________________________________ >
This may be a bit of an 'off on a tangent' thing. I don't want to confuse, but for me, this is how I have simplified the 'testing different distros' process. I use a different hard disk for my testing. I remove the good disk, with my good operating systems, from my machine, and put in a 'spare' hard disk, and then do a clean install of the test operating system I feel much happier changing hard disks in the PCs case then making changes to the boot loader - I've also found that some installs format all partitions. By taking my 'good' disk out of the machine, it stops me from doing something stupid, and I can let the installer just do its own thing, with confidence my 'good' disk is safe! This of course assumes you have more confidence under the lid of the PC, than 'under the lid' of linux/grub, and a spare hard disk is either available, or within your budget!! If not, then you'll be better off ignoring this post! Hugh ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
