[Breezy] evince not installable.

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> > Baza, it's not an risky at all... I just work with Wart on my main hard
> > drive, and dual boot Breezy on another drive... Everytime I reboot my
> > machine, GRUB asks me :Press 'A' to work (Warty) and 'B' to have fun
> > (Breezy).  
> 
> Do you mean this literally, or does the standard grub menu come up? If
> so, do you have any pointers on how to do this? I could do with having
> an option of A for Windows, B for Linux Hoary and maybe C for a test
> breezy system. With a 160 GB disk I have plenty of room for multiple
> systems!

No, it was not meant to be taken literally... I aplogoize if you got
mistaken by my dubious sense of humour... ;o)
But like you, I wsih GRUB would let you design you own user interface,
at least to some extent. A bit like in my MS-DOS days, when I spent some
time making a "bat" file to make a nice menu to start all the program,
and windows, park the disk's head etc...
Would be great if we could customize GRUB's text interface by means of
some text file, with a very basic scripting language to describe the
UI..
If the GRUB team doesn't want to do it, maybe Ubuntu could hack it, once
we are done with the rest of the eye candy (kernel bootsplash, graphical
installer etc). I don't dream of it for Breezy, but maybe we could make
some proof of concept for breezy+1 ? 
I think there is a wiki page for Ubuntu's eye candy, I will try to find
it and add my thoughts about GRUB... :o)))

> > I would not do it all on one single hard drive, but with Breezy safely
> > on a dedicated, old, hard drive, Warty and my Data are pretty safe I
> > think.
> 
> Why wouldn't separate partitions on a single drive provide the same
> degree of protection? Could a Linux system trash a whole disk?

I am no specialist. However I know myself a bit, and just like sudo is
safer than having constant access to root, despite allowing to do
exactly the same potentially disastrous things, I find that having
Breezy on a dedicated, and distinct physical drive, brings me a lot more
peace of mind that having it on the same physical drive as my
primary/important OS, Warty.
On a more technical level though, I did try to install Mandrake 9.2
twice some time ago, on the same disk, and could never figure how to do
it. I don't know if the problem was my lack of experience/knowledge back
then, or a limitation in Mandrake's installer, or both, but I couldn't
do it.


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Vince