Hey Cheuck,
2 things..
1( I believe you should be able to edit the grub config file to point to the list of distros ..
Second.. my wife wants ta know.. which hard drive you got for your Lenovo as she has one.. and how much RAM you have in your netbook ?
Thanks !
Mark
--- On Mon, 5/25/09, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>
> Subject: [SLUG] Fun machines
> To: slug@nks.net
> Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 6:05 PM
> Folks,
> I finally broke down and got me a netbook. Yesterday I
> pulled out the HD
> that came with it and put in a 500G HD. The idea was to put
> some distros
> on it and play with them all.
>
> The box is a Lenovo S10. First thing I did was see what was
> a common
> Linux on these things, found that Linpus was one option, so
> I put it on there
> It did not look to bad but the name sounds like something
> infectious. Also
> it never was able to get the WiFi card going. So I pulled
> good old Ubuntu
> down and installed it. Now that was a smooth install. I now
> have networking,
> nice smooth operation AND Compiz (I put that on there just
> to see how much
> it would slow it down, and turns out it is is so little and
> to not even bother).
>
> One thing I am noticing, as I put each distro on the HD it
> appears that each
> one lays down it's version of Grub, I guess I need to put
> grub on a small
> piece of the HD and call them from there am I correct??
> When I put Ubuntu
> on the machine the Linpux grub no longer worked. I have
> never put multiple
> distros on the same HD only Linux next to windows, and
> seems like all of
> the distros WILL recognize that and add it to the boot
> list.
>
> Any recommendations here as to the best way to go about
> putting distros
> on the HD and use a single grub install??
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask
> resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the
> midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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