Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Clive Rogers <c.rogers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:26:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Clive Rogers wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how
> > good and stable it is for a few years.   He is happy to install to a
> > partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
> >
> > So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into
> > linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
>
> If you've ever installed SuSE off of a CD or DVD, the boot
> screen has the following options
>
>   [  ]   Boot Installed System
>   [  ]   Memtest86
>   [  ]   Install SuSE Linux
>   [  ]   Safe Install SuSE Linux
>
>   [the last option being one with the noapic and another option
>    which prevents problems with older motherboards]
>
> So just use a SuSE install CD as a boot CD.
>
> > If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
>
> It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD

Agreed.  I also told him this but he is adamant he want to put the CD into the 
drive and let it boot from there with no further interaction from himself.

I think he is onto a loosing streak and for the life of me I can not see why 
he can't/won't install grub or lilo to the mbr which is the quickest and 
easiest options.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and options.

-- 
Kindest regards,

Clive
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/

Fighting for darker skies.
From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK)
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