Re: LUG: Dual Boot Thinkpad - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:40:22 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Dual Boot Thinkpad

From : Joe Winegarden <joe.winegarden@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:40:22 -0500

What to install first? More like what OS do you NOT already have installed? :)
You already have a "dual-boot" (or really octa-boot) setup, unless you mean you only want 2 of those OS's (which usually means XP+a flavor of linux) and want to trash the rest and merge partitions. But more than likely you don't have to install anything more than a boot manager like grub and configure entries for each of these OS's to be able to pick which one you want to boot. Or do you already have such a bootloader? Seems like you must unless you have a buncha floppys and a lotta spare time to wait for booting.

A little more detail on what you're really trying to do might help.
-J

On 11/17/05, Will Lane < will@jxxtech.[redacted] > wrote:

Hello,
I have an IBM think pad T42 that has has a myriad of operating
systems installed on it.  (Fedora, suse, centos, XP pro, vista beta, osx
x86, debian, ubuntu and a failed attempt at gentoo.)  My question is
basically how can I do a dual boot.  And what OS do I install first?
Also is gtkwifi any good?  I used it awhile back but it never seemed to
work for me.

Thanks all
Will

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