Clive Rogers wrote:
On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:26:44 Aaron Kulkis 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 you've ever installed SuSE off of a CD or DVD, the boot
screen has the following options
[ ] Boot Installed System
[ ] Memtest86
[ ] Install SuSE Linux
[ ] Safe Install SuSE Linux
[the last option being one with the noapic and another option
which prevents problems with older motherboards]
So just use a SuSE install CD as a boot CD.
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD
Agreed. I also told him this but he is adamant he want to put the CD into the
drive and let it boot from there with no further interaction from himself.
Which is EXACTLY what the install CD will do.
I think he is onto a loosing streak
Especially since the install CD will do EXACTLY
what he demands that it do...
> and for the life of me I can not see why
he can't/won't install grub or lilo to the
> mbr which is the quickest and
easiest options.
He's just making up EXCUSES (note, not reasons --
reasons are actual facts, whereas excuses are
made-up and as in this case, counter-factual)
to not change..
Personally, I'd just drop the subject, and
if he asks, say, "Look, I gave you a solution
which completely fulfills your stringent
demands and desires, and you rejected it, so
I'm not wasting any more time when you're
completely unwilling to accept exactly what
you asked for."
And the next time he complains about how
Windows is making his life sucky again,
tell him you don't want to hear about THAT
either, because he ALREADY HAS A SOLUTION
to his problems.
Many times, the solution isn't technical,
it's psychological.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and options.
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