View Single Post
Old 29-10-2007, 23:49   #8
Alien
Inactive
 
Alien's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: UK
Services: VM Phone, V+, VM 10Mb
Posts: 2,655
Alien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronze
Alien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronzeAlien is cast in bronze
Re: Multi-booting Linux & XP

Quote:
Originally Posted by xpod View Post
Not sure where you heard that one??
I've had 3 linux plus XP & Vista on one machine before.
Well, in the interests of accuracy, what I heard was closer to what Punky said. The info I received wasn't that grub couldn't do it as such, it was more that it might not handle more than 1 instance of Linux automatically & that I might have to go delving into config files or whatever to sort it out. It's been quite a while since I did anything more indepth with Linux than the brief fiddle I had with the Ubuntu Live CD last week, & I remember finding things like the directory structure/filing system/whatever rather confusing. That's why I was hoping for something that could do what I wanted automatically without me having to "get my hands dirty", as it were, until I'm more familiar with Linux in general.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ronald146m View Post
I agree with you xpod, my PC is a distro-wh0re too.
But I don't know whether GRUB will be able to differentiate between the Ubuntu kernel and the Kubuntu kernel. Aren't they the same?
(I'm asking - I don't know the answer)
I don't plan [ATM] on running Ubuntu & Kubuntu, I'm planning on having 2 versions [32 & 64bit] of Kubuntu. As for the difference between Ubuntu & Kubuntu, I probably know the least about Linux out of everyone in this thread, so it's very possible that I'm wrong with this, but from what I've read/heard the main [only?] difference between Ubuntu & Kubuntu is that Ubuntu uses Gnome & Kubuntu uses KDE.
Alien is offline   Reply With Quote