On 10:22 Tue 01 Mar , Bo Grimes wrote:
> Bill Davidson wrote:
>
> >Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install guide
> >in the gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other distro.
>
> Regarding the above, I have been reading the handbook and saw that
> poss
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 20:33, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:20:37 +0100, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have never
>
> > really been interested in Grub cos it is more complicated than lilo
>
> You probably love emacs, too .
I love xemacs&grub.
But it is ok, to prefer
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:45:58 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> [1] on my server at work grub has stage 1.5 files for the following
> filesystems: ext2/3,jfs,xfs,minix,fat,vstafs (whatever that is),ffs
> (ditto)
ffs is the Amiga Fast FileSystem.
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:25:24 -0400
Luis F. Araujo wrote:
> As far as i know lilo needs to record the address in the HD where the
> kernel is located,
> make it very hardware-depedent, that's why even if you change a minimal
> option in the kernel
> (for example tweaking a few things in .config)
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:25:24 -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote:
> As far as i know lilo needs to record the address in the HD where the
> kernel is located,
> make it very hardware-depedent, that's why even if you change a minimal
> option in the kernel
> (for example tweaking a few things in .config)
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:33:33 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
> I still don't know why someone would want to run an Operating system
> like emacs inside of thier operating system of Linux. But I digress...
Because without Linux they wouldn't have a text editor :)
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
You probably love emacs, too .
I still don't know why someone would want to run an Operating system like
emacs inside of thier operating system of Linux. But I digress...
:w!
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:20:37 +0100, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
I have never
> really been interested in Grub cos it is more complicated than lilo
We will agree to disagree. I find the need to mount every frgging
distro that's in my *.conf in order to make a simple change to the
*.conf wh
At Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:06:28 -0500 (EST) Christopher Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> And you can restore the whole thing if needed. Or, if you only need
> the boot loader, you can just do the first 448 of that mbr.bin
>
> dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1
Thanks for this. I hadn't rea
Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote:
I have never really been interested in Grub cos it is more
complicated than lilo, and lilo has never given me any probs at all
(I always install to mbr as well).
One huge advantage of grub over lilo is the fact that you can edit the
boo
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote:
I have never really been interested in Grub cos it is more complicated
than lilo, and lilo has never given me any probs at all (I always
install to mbr as well).
One huge advantage of grub over lilo is the fact that you can edit the
boot choices from within gr
Bo Grimes wrote:
Bill Davidson wrote:
Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install
guide in the gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other
distro.
Thanks to all for the input thus far. I knew I could dual-boot, because
I am, but I have never run two Linux ver
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm suggesting you install the bootloader to the root partition for your NEW distro, then chainload that from your current bootloader.
I see. "Chainloading" is a new concept to me. I assume it means what
it sounds like it means, so I will research this more. Thanks a bunch
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:39:31 +, Bo Grimes wrote:
> >The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
> >adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally,
> >then install the bootloader for the other distros into the root
> >partition of that distro, instea
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:06:28 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
> > When testing distros, I prefer to keep the whole distro in one place,
> > instead of mixing files from different distros in one partition. I
> > have done it this way, but keeping them separate makes for easier
> > removal. If yo
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:30:38 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
What fun is life without a little danger :)
You are asking that of a person who makes a living at IT? I much prefer a
nice boring day than a "Fix it or your fired" day.
As with the other me
Neil Bothwick wrote:
The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally, then
install the bootloader for the other distros into the root partition of
that distro, instead of the MBR.
Right now my MBR is on my Win
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:30:38 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
> > The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
> > adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally,
> > then install the bootloader for the other distros into the root
> > partition of tha
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally, then
install the bootloader for the other distros into the root partition of
that distro, instead of the MBR. Then you on
Bill Davidson wrote:
Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install guide in the
gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other distro.
Thanks to all for the input thus far. I knew I could dual-boot, because
I am, but I have never run two Linux versions on the same d
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:36:05 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
> In my time of using linux, I've found the easiest way to multiboot
> different distributions is to share a common /boot between them all,
> where you put all your kernels into that partition, and have a single
> grub.conf for ev
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Bo Grimes wrote:
Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32 partition
for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6 gig hda1 with
Windows just for a few educational games my kids still use that wouldn't run
on XP, but I want to use hdb1
On 21:32 Mon 28 Feb , Bo Grimes wrote:
> First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards.
>
> I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it
> very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my
> last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:45 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:17:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> One gotcha: be sure to remember which partition contains the active
> grub.conf Once I decided to remove a partition to install another
> distro, but I forgot that that partition w
> I have never put two versions of Linux on one
> computer. I want to keep
> hdb3 for my use while installing Gentoo on hdb1. Is
> this do-able? Are
the grub.conf.example IIRC covers this issue
> there any pitfalls to watch out for?
not really, as long as you have suitable boot media
ca
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are a lot of "gotchas" to multi-booting x86 machines; the
> architecture just wasn't designed for it. I'd say the answer is a
> qualified "yes, it should work." But you should expect to spend some
> quality time with this and have compl
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:17:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:32:16PM +, Bo Grimes wrote:
>
> > Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32
> > partition for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6
> > gig
Bo Grimes wrote:
First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards.
I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it
very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my
last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as much as possible
in the process.
Ho
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:32:16PM +, Bo Grimes wrote:
> Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32
> partition for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6
> gig hda1 with Windows just for a few educational games my kids still use
> that wouldn't run
Yes, it is doable, it would be a problem if they were in the same
partition, but that doesn't seem to be your case.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:32:16 +, Bo Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards.
>
> I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and
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