-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Gauland wrote: > My laptop is configured as dual-boot right now (Windows XP and Ubuntu). > Unfortunately, Ubuntu frequently locks up on this machine. I don't want > to do a re-install only to find that hasn't helped the situation, but > I'd like to add a new install to a separate partition, and see if that > runs any better. Of course, I want to be sure GRUB continues to > recognise the existing operating systems as well as the new one. Is > there any trick to doing this? I'm planning to install Debian > stable---any advice particular to that distribution? > > --Mike > Gparted[http://gparted.sourceforge.net/](it comes on the ubuntu live disk) will help you out partitioning
Debian mite tri-boot automatically but if it does not read the man page for grub and how to configure menu.list http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Configuration also you could create a /boot partition (ext2 100mb should do it) not sure how well it would sync with two OS's though but it's probably better than running 2 /boot's and trying to sync kernel updates also try to avoid editing the entries in menu.list directly there is a defaults section at the top which looks like it's commented out but is actually parsed when a kernel update happens - -- python -c "print \"\".join([ \"\x79\x71\x6Du\056vgp\x40ae\142nr\".decode(\"\x72o\164\x5F_13\")[i] for i in [1, 12, 9, 5, 13, 0, 4, 3, 5, 0, 0, 8, 11, 10, 7, 11, 9, 4, 9, 13, 6, 4, 9, 2] ] )" http://www.facebook.com/YellowOnion msnim:chat?contact=yellow_oni...@hotmail.com xmpp:yellowon...@jabber.org http://last.fm/user/Yellow-Onion/ https://launchpad.net/~daniel-hill -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqgRuUACgkQGplaCYOFvysYHQCfRCSUFFs1ozutYqcRBtWYcBWt f2gAoIoq4S6a5zT5YH9ERg5GeqYUee0+ =6r+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
