? grub - XP,Ubuntu, Xubuntu

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/10/15 16:33 (GMT-0700) Dennis Castanos apparently typed:

> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 19:23 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 2007/10/15 18:58 (GMT-0400) Dennis Castanos apparently typed:

>> > i have free space to play with.  If I install Xubuntu on my dual boot
>> > system, will Xubuntu automatic reconfigure grub to have a triple boot
>> > system?  (XP, Ubuntu, Xubuntu) -Dennis

>> That would be a lot of needless duplication. Just apt-get install
>> xubuntu-desktop and choose between Gnome and XFce from the login manager.

> neat info.  What if I want to install "Gutsy Gibbon".  Would this hold
> true?  or how about Debian?  Would grub pick up whatever os I had on my
> hard drive?

Assuming you're running Feisty or some older *ubuntu now, Gutsy would
normally be an upgrade install, but you could install it separately. As a
separate install, you'd have a choice of it installing Grub either to its own
boot or root partition, or to the MBR. If to the MBR, it would replace what
you have there now, assuming you're already using it now from that location,
and should automatically include your current windoz and *ubuntu. If to its
own partition, you'd need to add it to your existing grub, easily done by
copying one of its grub stanzas from its menu.lst to your existing menu.lst.

Debian is a separate distro, though one on which *ubuntu is based and has
much in common. If you want it too, it's a separate install, and the same
would apply as to Gutsy as an additional OS. It what you want is an
experiment in other Linux distros, Debian isn't a whole lot different, so you
may learn more about differences with Mandriva or SUSE or Fedora instead.
These three, and many others, use rpm-based rather than deb-based packaging
systems, and separate fundamental systems by runlevel rather than as the
Debian systems dumping everything into runlevel 2. Level 2 is multiuser. 3
adds networking. 5 adds X.

More on multibooting: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/partitioningindex.html
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