Re: LUG: Dual Boot Thinkpad - Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:23:09 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Dual Boot Thinkpad

From : Brad Oaks <bradoaks@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:23:09 -0500

He probably meant to say that the laptop has had each of those OS's
installed -- one at a time. Now he wants to dual boot and have two
installed at once.

On 11/17/05, Joe Winegarden <joe.winegarden@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
> 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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