On 1/30/06, Heikki Pesonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
The configuration files for GRUB are in /boot/grub There are graphical tools, but I am not using Mandriva right now so I don't have the program to look at while I write instructions for you. If someone could provide instructions for this in the thread please do. You could also tell me which version of Mandrake/iva you are using and I could install a copy to play with and write the instructions for you, though it may take a few days as I have other things to do. It isn't that hard to edit the config files by hand if you have the changes spelled out to you before hand. The configuration file that needs to be edited to add items to the boot loader list is "menu.lst" which only the root user can modify. On my Fedora system the file "menu.lst" is set up in such a way that you can simply add new boot entries to the end of the file and as long as you don't seriously mess up the syntax you shouldn't have any risk of breaking the rest of the config file if you make a mistake. > > > 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. This was only meant if you want to install additional Windows and DOS installs apart from the one that is already occupying the "C" drive. All M$ operating systems have this neurotic obsession of being installed on the first partition of the first hard disk. So, if you have XP installed and you want to install 98, the M$ way is: wipe out XP, install 98, reinstall XP on a different partition, and after all this foolishness you may have to reinstall Linux! Grub just offers a little black magic to fake out the M$ garbage and make it think it is installed where it wants to be without having to redo your entire system setup. The funny thing about how I learned all this stuff is I just did it and didn't look back, though my overall knowledge of computers did help a little. :-) Mike ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
