Actually, I do have a second hard drive, and I really don't use it much - just park stuff there for the weekend backup of graphics files to cds and documents.
I know that some people do have multiple distros set up on their machines, and it's probably pretty easy to do. But like I said, I'm a real moron at this point with linux - it's just one step at a time. It takes me about 6- 8 hours to reconfigure everything when I crash everything, which happens pretty regularly when there is a block of 48 or 72 hours with which to try something new. So exactly how do you set up a second distro? I do use lilo, not GRUB, and lilo is one of the few things I never have a problem fooling around with. Unlike compiling - I've tried many dozens of times to compile a linux kernel, with no success. There must be some one small thing I'm doing incorrectly, but I don't know what it is. For example - and this is just one of the things about compiling that eludes me - if I want to change just one thing, like turning on scsi emulation when using Red Hat x.x so one can use an ATAPI cd burner, when I go into xconfigure nothing seems to be set up the way my machine is set up - in other words, it doesn't seem like you can ever just change one thing because the way the machine configures itself seems to follow a different configuration then the way xconfiugre is set up when you go into it. It says I have a pentium when I actually have and AMD AThlon and so forth. And I do not have anywhere near the knowledge to set up everything - I've tried just for the hell of it, many times but like I said, with no success. But this is getting way off the XFree topics. fred On Friday 08 February 2002 18:14, you wrote: > Well from what I've heard the XFree binaries are quite okay... I myself > used the Slackware files (still I'm surprised it's maintained that fast, > taking into account how many ppl use it compared to the big ones like > RH/SuSE/debian and so on) and everything is great. What's on my to do list > is installing GATOS, but I'm a lil afraid it could mess up my sys, and > currently I don't have enough space for backup... that is, unless I did it > on a loopback on my Windoze disk. > > What you need is not a second box but rather a second hard disk to play > around with - just make the FAT partitions inaccessible and you should be > safe... unless you fool around with fdisk not knowing what ur doing, that > is. > > Dex > > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:30:16 -0500 > > fred bazolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 08 February 2002 15:21, you wrote: > > Glad to hear your suggestion. I'm only a techie wannabe, and a lazy/busy > > one at that, so....I'm just going to wait for the next SuSE release to > > get the 4.20 of XFree. > > > > What I need to do is get some trashy box that I can hack on and not mess > > up work, then I can expeeriment and learn how to compile the kernel, > > install new versions of XFree, etc, without trashing all my work. > > > > fred > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
