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 Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:56 am
I have i guy in my Networking class that is playing with PClOS and runs the KDE version, and he had some questions he wanted me to demonstrate. so i offered i would but PClOS on my laptop to show him some of the ropes but i needed a few days to Figure out PCOS navigation being that i Use Gnome, Ubuntu.
So my Question When i install PClOS on to my 20gig partition. should i reinstall grub or will the grub i have pre-installed notice that i have PClOS also?
I'm currently Dual Booting XP
I Posted this in C&T
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:45 am
You shouldn't have to reinstall GRUB, all you should have to do is run update-grub, for details on this see the following website http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/8/update-grub.html, or manually edit GRUB and add PCIOS as a boot option to grub (for this you will need to know the label for that 20 GB partition you are installing it on.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:22 pm
So would it be easier just to reinstall it.
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Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:55 pm
If the update-grub command doesn't work then yes it may be easier to reinstall grub
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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:07 pm
Yuck Yuck Yuck i installed PClOS last night when i was half awake... Probably my first mistake.
\But lets start with the good news:
1) PClOS is installed and i must say it is quite nice.
2)It's a Pretty easy Grub editing interface.
3)I am triple booting
\Now the really annoyingly bad
I can boot in Ubuntu but only in Safe mode and my graphics are Sh*ty Compiz-fusion will not load. or my volume control, any connection to the internet will fall both wireless and the good old CAT-5 cable.
\and now i'm tinkering with the grub editor. And i'm pointing Grub straight at
/dev/sda2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8
this is frustrating...
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:26 am
At least you had a heads up on one of my friends who was looking for a new distro to replace his Mandriva, and ended up trying to duel boot Fedora Core 8 and XP drunk. His end result was wiping his disk and not installing anything.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:07 pm
I'm so mad at both distros right now i think i'm going to switch. and only dual boot. how does Suse treat Yah.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:14 pm
I like SuSE, 10.3 was a great speed boost and 11.0 is promising better sound drivers for loader sound. If you want to use GNOME as your desktop though I would stay way from the DVD, for some reason GNOME is broken on the DVD but works fine if installed from the 1 GNOME cd.
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