Almost there (XP/Ubuntu/Mandriva triple-boot revisited)

C Hamel yogich at sc2000.net
Wed Feb 1 09:16:57 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 2006 February 01 05:18, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> Y'all get ready for some more upcomin' hand-holdin'.  (But not tonight;
> it's too late for coffee and I'm almost out of cigarettes, not to mention
> I'm beat.)
>
> Anyway, thanks to all who responded to my initial post(s) regarding setting
> up a triple-boot with XP Pro, [k]ubuntu and Mandriva.  I finally mustered
> up the courage to go ahead with the basic installation tonight -- except
> for installing eithe grub or lilo, as I'll edit lilo later from Mdv, or so
> is the plan -- and at least all is well with my XP Pro and Mandriva (and
> theoretically with Ubuntu, as well, though that's for tomorrow's agenda),
> so that's my main worry out of the way.
>
> Now, I just need to tackle lilo to make it handle the now triple-boot
> setup, so I'm sure I'll be back.  ;-)
>
> Thanks again.
>
> --
> Chuck MATTSEN / Mahnomen, MN, USA / mattsen at arvig.net
> Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586
> kernel 2.6.12-13mdk-i686-up-4GB / RLU #346519
>                 ___________________
> Random Thought/Quote For This Message:
>      Some people march to the beat of a different drummer.
Good show.  After you cobble your lilo.conf file w/all three OS, /sbin/lilo 
will make it work.  (...Or is it /usr/sbin/lilo??  I use Grub, myself.  Oh 
well. <LOL>)
-- 
        ...CH
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