On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 08:55 +0100, G T Smith wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike McMullin wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 12:39 +0700, Hans Linux wrote: > >> ubuntu is quite tempting :D i would like to hv it install on my laptop. > >> currently i have dual boot for my Vista and SUSE already. Is it OK for > >> me to install ubuntu to have triple boot? would ubuntu set triple boot > >> automatically, or i hv to edit manually some menu list? anyone > >> experience this before? > > > > My main system is quintuple boot, and I have SuSE handle the booting. > > I just did not care for XP's, Ubuntu, or LinuxXP's booting > > screen/options. I'd suggest that you have your normal OS of choice > > handle booting, as this is the one that you will keep on hand the > > longest. > > > > Hmmm... booting between 3 OSs I would have regarded as pushing it slightly.
When I get the disk space, and MAC ports MacOS for pure Intel use, I'll be adding that. I've been toying around with the idea of trying openSolaris, and perhaps one of the BSD's. It's just questions of time, compatability and ability on my part. > At one time as it was required that I worked with about 3 different > variants of windows in a number of different configurations and Linux, > we had a machine which booted off a disk caddy which had a drive slammed > in according to which configuration one needed to work with. Aren't those neat. :) I'm curious as to why the 3 differing Windows installs. > I tried setting up dual booting with Red Hat a while back and it was not > an experience I wish to repeat, Things may have improved but neither OS > was totally happy with the others implementation of the partition and > file system structure with quite destructive results. The partitioning experience is one of the criterium I use when assessing a new distro. If I have to use a Live-CD for partitioning then the thing starts out with a strike or two against it. My Ubuntu-6.06-LTS DVD had a bug in formatting to Reiser, but on the whole I'm pleased with it, and I'm thinking of putting 7.04 on my son's laptop in place of his 10.1 and wonky wireless problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
