[Novalug] Re: CentOS/Ubuntu

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, RogerB wrote:

>
> CAVEAT for dual boot Linux: if the kernel gets updated, as 
> happened with SuSE after I had installed Ubuntu in another 
> partition, Grub threw an error message that it could not find 
> SuSE. That's because Ubuntu took command and, of course, SuSE 
> didn't know about that. The fix was to learn more about Grub 
> and edit Ubuntu's menu.txt to point to the correct version of 
> the kernel for SuSE. Problem solved.

 	I may be in trouble, then. What I know of kernels would 
go in a gnat's eye; and Grub drives me to despair any time I 
don't have an exact recipe for what to put into /etc/grub.conf -- 
such as mapping hd(1,0) onto hd(01) and vice versa, to enable a 
machine to dual boot Fedora and XP

> Of course, with Ubuntu, you don't really need to install it to 
> do a quick trial: just boot it from CD and give it a fling. 
> That works for me, including wireless, etc.

 	Been there, done that (and didn't like it, then at 
least). The point of this present exercise is to try two 
things : adding on apps not in the distro already, and doing 
updating.

 	CentOS with epel is already doing a lot better than last 
time I tried it (from a live CD, iirc, just to get a look). Maybe 
Ubuntu will, too.

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Beartooth Paganus, Staffwright, Sciurivore
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