On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:32:13 David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: > Clive Rogers wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how > > good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a > > partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. > > > > So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into > > linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? > > > > If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? > > Why not just get rid of the graphic splash, set widows as the default > and set the timeout to 1 second. He would probably never even notice > grub. If he then wanted to boot linux, he could just tap a key during > boot to stop the timeout and boot to linux. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com
Thanks David. This was my suggestion to him but he wants to do it from CD. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
