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Re: OT: Linus or annother Linus?
de tim 04/27/2006 04:37
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:22:41 -0400, Mark Warner wrote:
> Upon further review... what you're describing here sounds nearly normal.
> Can't explain the second Windows listing, though; do you by chance have
> another install of Windows, or an image perhaps, on a separate
> partition? Regardless, if you could boot Tokay into both Windows and
> MEPIS from there, you could always edit the menu.lest file and comment
> out or delete the stanzas you don't want to appear.
I was pretty sure what I was doing was correct. I've tried various
flavors of linux in the past with no problem using a boot loader. Never
tried using a SATA drive as a primary Windows drive though.
> What version of MEPIS were you installing? The last stable version
is
> 3.4-3;
Yup, that's the one I got on the weekend.
>the Ubuntu Dapper-based version is now at alpha2.
I've just installed Ubuntu 10.1 DVD which I grabbed a couple of weeks ago.
GRUB with Ubuntu did not allow me to boot to Windows either. Must be
something to do with the SATA drive. I'll have to do more reading I guess.
>I've had good
> luck with v3.4-3 on several machines, including a 4+ year old Dell
> laptop; I'm currently running the pare-alpha v6.0 "experimental" on my
> main desktop machine and it has been great.
Mepis looked like a nice distro. Not so sure if I like Ubuntu or not yet.
It's different somehow than Mepis so far.
I believe I'll reinstall Mepis, and then have GRUB get installed onto a
floppy as you and Rich suggested, even though it pains me to do it. I'll
have to reinstall a floppy drive into this rig just for that use :(
Thanks for your time Mark.
tim