On Sunday 29 January 2006 21:12, LinuxManMikeC wrote:
Li> 3) When you get to the boot loader installation you can do one of
Li> two things. Install the boot loader to the install partition (hda2 or
Li> hda3, whichever you used for root "/") and chain the boot loaders, or
Li> install no boot loader and configure your current one to boot your new
Li> distro. What I do and suggest for you is to install the new distro's
Li> boot loader to the boot sector of its partition and chain your current
Li> boot loader to that boot loader. This way your new distro will be
Li> able to automatically set up any boot arguments for you in the boot
Li> loader configuration.
Li> To chain your current boot loader you use the same method as you use
Li> for loading Windows. In GRUB create the following boot entry (change
Li> the title and partition location as necessary):
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I don't know from GRUB, and at this point it all becomes very fuzzy to me.
Li> If you need more help just ask or google for it,
It's pretty humbling when "newbie" stuff is way over my head. :-) Of course,
I've been Google-ing up a storm, but most of that, similarly, assumes I know
more than I do (which is, essentially, squat).
I appreciate the time spent in your response (above, and snipped) ... I find
myself at the same position as before, when I originally had asked a similar
question ... understanding just enough of it to know I could really screw
things up in a major way, and not understanding enough of it to have any
confidence whatsoever that I could get myself out of any holes I dug myself
into. So, I'll probably have Mandriva on this box until it dies, or I do,
whichever comes first.
Thanks. But you're leagues ahead of me.
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Chuck MATTSEN / Mahnomen, MN, USA / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586
kernel 2.6.12-13mdk-i686-up-4GB / RLU #346519
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