From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RW4Rk-0004fk-R9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:04:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C87A21C088; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FADBE0429 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg18 with SMTP id g18so2094867ghb.40 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:03:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gy0t96ex4dq67T3/bY6gUxpm5UZ4WT4n2WP2jt4VVMc=; b=l5tQX7PjebIqkc96w0UjP83i8qEct8w9wJlGXaXTu6giz4XT0jCYtsJo1bcNaqGcqY cmFsvI+N5w+YVpao6aIpfMAt05qhGST9M4x8J2lsQjFQmi9uxcOqWiyodAq4U//EGgqY RMFQ67hHHI3FhFddZW4VNusYtgUrx7OjRFtAE= Received: by 10.236.181.231 with SMTP id l67mr10862481yhm.8.1322737410393; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:03:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-85.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n64sm9001505yhk.4.2011.12.01.03.03.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:03:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED75EFC.8050002@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:03:24 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo (multiple OS) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8a4c6f2b-7d89-4293-870f-78a16e487c52 X-Archives-Hash: e85250575fc13594535b30555f9c2fa8 srini srini wrote: > Hello, > > I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with > different other OS'es including windows. > As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go > about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. > > Can anyone help me about this. > > TIA > --SR-- Its been a long while since I did this but this was how I did it. I had a common /boot for all OS's, then separate partitions/drives for the rest of the OS's. If you run all the distros with pretty close to the same versions of desktop and such, you may can get away with a common /home. If one OS is running KDE3 and another KDE4, then you may run into issues. I'm sure there are other issues you need to look into as well. I used lilo a VERY long time ago. Once I used grub, I never used lilo again. If the distros you chose is using the new Grub then use the new one for them all. If all use the older one, then use it. If it is a mix of those, then you need to look into ways to get them to all use the same or chainload them somehow. To me, that sounds complicated. At some point, I would pick a distro and stick with it. No issue with folks trying out different ones but why update and hang onto different ones when you only need one? ;-) If I set up a system with windoze, I always put windoze on the first drive, sda, and Linux on the rest. They could share but I just always liked to keep windoze on its own. I always felt windoze was a virus itself. It might migrate over to Linux somehow. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!