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From: Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:29:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oe752ple.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907092706.E6E1.NICK@rout.co.nz> (Nick Rout's message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:27:41 +1200")

Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> writes:

> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:15:56 -0700
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask.
>> 
>> 1) I just installed Win XP
>> 
>> 2) I'm going to install Gentoo
>> 
>> 3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot
>> 
>>    Any reason I cannot install grub at the start of the Gentoo install
>> process instead of at the end? This would allow me to check that
>> Windows is still booting before I spend hours building the machine up
>> with Gentoo only to run into some sort of an issue with the way I've
>> got Windows on the box.
>> 
> you'll need to get to the point where you can compile grub - ie up to
> stage 3 probably.

Not really. It can be installed from a live CD.
-- 
Hilsen Harald.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-07  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-06 21:15 [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first Mark Knecht
2005-09-06 21:27 ` Nick Rout
2005-09-06 21:34   ` Mark Knecht
2005-09-07  9:29   ` Harald Arnesen [this message]

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