On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 05:52 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 08:55 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
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Mike McMullin wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 12:39 +0700, Hans Linux wrote:
ubuntu is quite tempting :D i would like to hv it install on my laptop. currently i have dual boot for my Vista and SUSE already. Is it OK for me to install ubuntu to have triple boot? would ubuntu set triple boot automatically, or i hv to edit manually some menu list? anyone experience this before?
My main system is quintuple boot, and I have SuSE handle the booting. I just did not care for XP's, Ubuntu, or LinuxXP's booting screen/options. I'd suggest that you have your normal OS of choice handle booting, as this is the one that you will keep on hand the longest.
Hmmm... booting between 3 OSs I would have regarded as pushing it slightly.
When I get the disk space, and MAC ports MacOS for pure Intel use, I'll be adding that. I've been toying around with the idea of trying openSolaris, and perhaps one of the BSD's. It's just questions of time, compatability and ability on my part.
At one time as it was required that I worked with about 3 different variants of windows in a number of different configurations and Linux, we had a machine which booted off a disk caddy which had a drive slammed in according to which configuration one needed to work with.
Aren't those neat. :) I'm curious as to why the 3 differing Windows installs.
I tried setting up dual booting with Red Hat a while back and it was not an experience I wish to repeat, Things may have improved but neither OS was totally happy with the others implementation of the partition and file system structure with quite destructive results.
The partitioning experience is one of the criterium I use when assessing a new distro. If I have to use a Live-CD for partitioning then the thing starts out with a strike or two against it. My Ubuntu-6.06-LTS DVD had a bug in formatting to Reiser, but on the whole I'm pleased with it, and I'm thinking of putting 7.04 on my son's laptop in place of his 10.1 and wonky wireless problems.
Mike, Are you sure your not a "pain junky"? ;) I had at one time Windows 3.11 , Windows 95 and NT4 on one disk for a teaching lab, it hurt on a daily basis. I would try 10.2 to fix the wireless issues before moving to Ubuntu. 10.2 has the kernel modules for Broadcom support if you want to work with the fwcutter, if not, the ndiswrapper setup is quite easy and stable, I just did my sons HP dv6000 with SLED10sp1 it's awesome. -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org