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srini srini wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with |
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> different other OS'es including windows. |
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> As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go |
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> about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. |
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> Can anyone help me about this. |
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> TIA |
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> --SR-- |
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Its been a long while since I did this but this was how I did it. I had |
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a common /boot for all OS's, then separate partitions/drives for the |
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rest of the OS's. If you run all the distros with pretty close to the |
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same versions of desktop and such, you may can get away with a common |
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/home. If one OS is running KDE3 and another KDE4, then you may run |
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into issues. I'm sure there are other issues you need to look into as |
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well. |
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I used lilo a VERY long time ago. Once I used grub, I never used lilo |
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again. If the distros you chose is using the new Grub then use the new |
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one for them all. If all use the older one, then use it. If it is a |
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mix of those, then you need to look into ways to get them to all use the |
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same or chainload them somehow. To me, that sounds complicated. At |
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some point, I would pick a distro and stick with it. No issue with |
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folks trying out different ones but why update and hang onto different |
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ones when you only need one? ;-) |
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If I set up a system with windoze, I always put windoze on the first |
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drive, sda, and Linux on the rest. They could share but I just always |
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liked to keep windoze on its own. I always felt windoze was a virus |
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itself. It might migrate over to Linux somehow. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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