[olug] Other distros

[bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu]

I've been playing with Linux for about 7 years now, and believe me, I still
can't do half of what I can do in Windows, but I keep learning.  I have a
big hill to climb to get my wife off of Windows, but she knows how I feel
about XP's license.  So she'll either stay on 98, or she'll go to Linux,
although Lindows looks promising.

I think Grub has config files and such on the linux partition, and can't
exist without it.  I have found a couple of boot managers today that seem
to be pretty OS independent.  Partition Manager (Ranish) has a boot manager
that seems to be installed and configured with the Partition Manager
software, which can reside on a boot floppy.  I also found Smart Boot
Manager.  This bad boy installs completely into the MBR, and is
self-contained.  I'm going to try both of these out and I'll report my
findings if anyone is interested.

Bill
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I'm no guru but I /think/ grub will fill your boot manager needs.  It
has a nice menu and will allow you to boot a kernel anywhere on your
filesystem (I don't believe that lilo does this as easily if at all).

As far as weening someone off of Windows, I wish you the best of luck.
 I still can't figure out how to cut and paste consistently in Gnome or
KDE... It's frustrating to say the least.

Good luck,






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