Anssi Saari wrote:
> songbird writes:
>
>> hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up
>> and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the
>> backup but i do test it out from time to time.
>
> Um, so how do you choose which boot manager you want to run? UEFI boot
> menu?
songbird writes:
> hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up
> and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the
> backup but i do test it out from time to time.
Um, so how do you choose which boot manager you want to run? UEFI boot
menu?
Hi,
Felix Miata wrote:
> Which distros ship rEFInd? It's not among packages monitored by distrowatch.
It seems that Debian does since a while:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/refind
The tracker page points by its "homepage" link to
https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
which shows the name "rEFIn
songbird composed on 2024-09-14 13:07 (UTC-0400):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Max Nikulin composed on 2024-09-14 10:59 (UTC+0700):
>>> So multiple loaders from the same vendor is tricky in the case of UEFI
>>> SecureBoot. Behavior of grub may vary across Linux distributions.
>> Thus, consider to K
Felix Miata wrote:
> Max Nikulin composed on 2024-09-14 10:59 (UTC+0700):
>
>> So multiple loaders from the same vendor is tricky in the case of UEFI
>> SecureBoot. Behavior of grub may vary across Linux distributions.
>
> Thus, consider to KISS. Pick one installation's bootloader to depend on.
>
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-09-14 10:59 (UTC+0700):
> So multiple loaders from the same vendor is tricky in the case of UEFI
> SecureBoot. Behavior of grub may vary across Linux distributions.
Thus, consider to KISS. Pick one installation's bootloader to depend on. Install
no others.
--
Evolut
Avoid setting non-standard GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in /etc/default/grub if you
use Debian 12 bookworm with enabled Secure Boot and signed grub image
from Debian. Alternatively install grub-2.12 from backports.
On 23/08/2024 11:39, Felix Miata wrote:
I don't know what vexing secure boot might introdu
On 30/08/2024 23:42, Felix Miata wrote:
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-30 23:09 (UTC+0700):
How does grubx64.efi find where grub.cfg is located?
I don't know what doc might report this, but in a file viewer I see a string
like
(,gpt7)/boot/grub) embedded in a vast sea of nulls 98% of the wa
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-30 23:09 (UTC+0700):
> How does grubx64.efi find where grub.cfg is located?
I don't know what doc might report this, but in a file viewer I see a string
like
(,gpt7)/boot/grub) embedded in a vast sea of nulls 98% of the way into the file.
--
Evolution as taught i
On 23/08/2024 11:39, Felix Miata wrote:
I don't know what vexing secure boot might introduce, but without it,
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= was used by grub-install in Trixie here to produce
results I expected:
[...]
# grep TOR /etc/default/grub
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="debian13"
[...]
├── debian13
│ └── grub
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-23 10:09 (UTC+0700):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> That is written by any process that
>> reads GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= to determine where to do its writing on the ESP.
> To avoid confusion of those who may notice this thread in search engine
> results:
> In Debian GRUB_D
On 22/08/2024 16:44, Felix Miata wrote:
That is written by any process that
reads GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= to determine where to do its writing on the ESP.
To avoid confusion of those who may notice this thread in search engine
results:
In Debian GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR value is *not* passed to "grub-inst
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-22 22:56 (UTC+0700):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> # ls -gG/boot/efi/EFI/opensusetw/
>> total 148
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 151552 Aug 21 16:08 grubx64.efi
> Am I right that you either do not use Secure Boot or generated a local
> key instead of/in addition to Microsoft and SUSE
On 22/08/2024 16:44, Felix Miata wrote:
# ls -gG/boot/efi/EFI/opensusetw/
total 148
-rwxr-xr-x 1 151552 Aug 21 16:08 grubx64.efi
Am I right that you either do not use Secure Boot or generated a local
key instead of/in addition to Microsoft and SUSE ones?
In the case of default or almost defa
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-22 10:17 (UTC+0700):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> My BBS menu contains 4 entries corresponding to output from efibootmgr,
>> with the highlight on the one beginning "opensusetw", as configured via
>> GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=.
> Or it just coincides with the configured value.
s 100% managed by me.
[...]
This is KISS applied to multibooting with UEFI.
Sorry, but this time I would prefer to leave aside grub configuration
unrelated to UEFI. I have never had intention to dispute that it is
possible to configure multiboot using grub. Multiboot using UEFI
facilities directl
What else did you find
>> necessary?
> Have I missed something or GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR affects *grub* menu, but not
> *UEFI* boot menu?
Your language as I quoted above I interpreted to mean:
1-you wish 2 entries from same vendor in BBS menu
2-you are not directly or ATM concerned
Max Nikulin (12024-08-21):
> Have I missed something or GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR affects *grub* menu, but not
> *UEFI* boot menu?
Indeed, it is not just as simple as that.
>I still suspect it is a UEFI+SecureBoot design
> shortcoming that it is not possible to install the same loader
On 21/08/2024 11:25, Felix Miata wrote:
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-21 10:54 (UTC+0700):
I was experimenting trying to get 2
entries from the same vendor in the UEFI (firmware) boot menu and found
it tricky and inconvenient.
How so? I found it quite simple to edit /etc/default/grub and re
On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:45:05 +0200
Nicolas George wrote:
> Max Nikulin (12024-08-21):
> > Do you mean 3rd party bootloader (e.g. grub)?
>
> There is nothing “3rd party” about GRUB.
>
> > I was responding to
> > "AIUI
> > UEFI/GPT were designed t
Max Nikulin (12024-08-21):
> Do you mean 3rd party bootloader (e.g. grub)?
There is nothing “3rd party” about GRUB.
> I was responding to "AIUI
> UEFI/GPT were designed to support multi-boot".
Yes, and so was I. If you want half a dozen different GRU
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-21 10:54 (UTC+0700):
> I was experimenting trying to get 2
> entries from the same vendor in the UEFI (firmware) boot menu and found
> it tricky and inconvenient.
How so? I found it quite simple to edit /etc/default/grub and replace the
default
value of GRUB_DIS
On 20/08/2024 22:50, Nicolas George wrote:
Max Nikulin (12024-08-20):
Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but
not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions.
This is not true. The only problem you will have with this setup is that
you will need to in
On 8/20/24 12:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM Nicolas George wrote:
[...]
EFI files are signed
for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be easily adjusted.
Secure boot is a joke when it comes to security, it
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM Nicolas George wrote:
>
> [...]
> > EFI files are signed
> > for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be easily adjusted.
>
> Secure boot is a joke when it comes to security, its only “merit” is to
> prevent l
Max Nikulin (12024-08-20):
> Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but
> not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions.
This is not true. The only problem you will have with this setup is that
you will need to install and/or configure the bootloader manua
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 05:17:43PM CEST, Max Nikulin said:
> On 20/08/2024 11:27, David Christensen wrote:
> > AIUI UEFI/GPT were designed to support multi-boot
>
> Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but
> not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions
On 20/08/2024 11:27, David Christensen wrote:
AIUI UEFI/GPT were designed to support multi-boot
Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors,
but not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions. EFI files
are signed for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> [...]
> I'd show you how I chained openbsd, but the partition in question is
> not mounted and I'm not logged in on an admin group user right now.
This is for booting openbsd from the grub installed by debian Linux. I
don't know how applicable i
On 8/20/14, Rusi Mody wrote:
>> Any suggestions as to what to do. I've looked at several web pages about
>> this and most seem out of date & I'm apprehensive about directly editing
>> the grub.cfg file as it says to NOT do that.
>> Thanks!
>> John
>
> My impression (from the grub mailing lists) i
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, John Foster wrote:
> Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running
> several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got
> windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the
> Rather than probing, I prefer to have grub pass the boot off to the
> installed distro's own boot loader by chaining. That way, each install
> can update it's own loader and be done with it.
Complete agreement. Of course, what really should happen is that Grub
itself should do (at boot) the pro
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, John Foster wrote:
> Any one using multiboot please reply.
Hi.
> I have a system that is running
several == 3 or more?
> several linux distros,
> each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7
> pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard driv
On 21/08/2014, John Foster wrote:
> Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running
> several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got
> windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the
> grub2 osprobe to recognize the Kfre
On 20/08/14 12:58 PM, John Foster wrote:
Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running
several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got
windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the
grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk
Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running
several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got
windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the
grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk as its also set up with a
grub boot
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/how-to-create-multiboot-liveusb-using.html
It worked great and I was able to create a multiple distro USB stick. I
tried it in a virtual window and each one seemed to work fine. I tried
it on an older Dell laptop and found a couple of Distros had issues with
the l
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: multiboot on usb?
From: Brian
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:40:51 +0100
Message-id: <20121003114051.GM22368@desktop>
In-reply-to:
References:
On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 10:12:22 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> I want to check differen
On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 10:12:22 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> I want to check different distros ( instead of using several pens), so
>
> I want to create on an usb pen a mutli boot system.
> I used unetbootin, it works fine but for only one system at time.
> on Windows there are some
Hi,
I want to check different distros ( instead of using several pens), so
I want to create on an usb pen a mutli boot system.
I used unetbootin, it works fine but for only one system at time.
on Windows there are some tools like YUMI, i tried it not working
correctly,
then I want one workin
On Mon, 14 May 2012 01:20:11 -0400, Long Wind wrote:
> Thank Camaleón!
> I decide I'll replace Mandrake 9.2 with etch and I have tested with etch
> etch can boot squeeze
Well, of course Etch -GRUB legacy- can boot Squeeze and Squeeze -GRUB2-
can also boot Mandrake, but if that's an acceptable so
Thank Camaleón!
I decide I'll replace Mandrake 9.2 with etch
and I have tested with etch
etch can boot squeeze
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y boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line, test
> >> some combos and when you finally get it, edit the corresponding menu
> >> file from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Thank Camaleón!
> > I have used multiboot in early debian d
responding menu
>> file from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly.
>>
>>
>>
> Thank Camaleón!
> I have used multiboot in early debian distro this time it seems very
> hard
You were facing no problems before because the two linux distributions
you had installed were
it, edit the corresponding menu file
> > from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > --
> > Camaleón
> >
> >
>
> Thank Camaleón!
> I have used multiboot in early debian distro
> this time it seems very hard
> I don&
t "you" but the os-prober) missed something at the boot entry,
> I would try to manually boot Mandrake from GRUB2 command line, test some
> combos and when you finally get it, edit the corresponding menu file
> from ("/etc/grub.d/*") accordingly.
>
> Greetings,
&
On Sat, 12 May 2012 20:05:44 -0400, Long Wind wrote:
> my hard disk looks like this:
>
> sda1: Win XP
> sda3: Mandrake 9.2
> sda4: lenny
And you were booting from lenny, right?
> now I install squeeze at sda4
> (lenny erased)
And GRUB2 comes to place.
> XP boots OK
> but Mandrake 9.2 can't bo
my hard disk looks like this:
sda1: Win XP
sda3: Mandrake 9.2
sda4: lenny
now I install squeeze at sda4
(lenny erased)
XP boots OK
but Mandrake 9.2 can't boot
(After I select Mandrade in grub menu, it reboots)
I attach grub.cfg
grub.cfg
Description: Binary data
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:12:00 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> I would like to install a multiboot system but I don't have any free
> partitions that are anywhere near large enough.
Post the ouput of "fdisk -l" so we can have an idea of your current hard
disk layout. Remme
Greetings all,
I would like to install a multiboot system but I don't have
any free partitions that are anywhere near large enough.
Is there any way that I can install into a directory on my
existing boot/root volume? Say in /new-sys ??
I have been looking at the doc that I have fou
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Tom H [110921 02:09]:
>> Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling
>> boot.
>
> Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze)
> controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But
* Tom H [110921 02:09]:
> Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling
> boot.
Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze)
controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But this
(Wheezy) may be better.
> Why did you run "grub-install"?
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Russell L. Harris
wrote:
>
> I installed Debian stable (Squeeze) and Debian testing (Wheezy) on a
> single drive (multi-boot), then I installed Ubuntu
> 10.04.3-desktop-i386. In addition to a partition for each OS, the
> drive has a /boot partition and a swap part
I installed Debian stable (Squeeze) and Debian testing (Wheezy) on a
single drive (multi-boot), then I installed Ubuntu
10.04.3-desktop-i386. In addition to a partition for each OS, the
drive has a /boot partition and a swap partition.
When installing Ubuntu, I UNchecked the "install boot loade
"multisystem" is a good choice,
http://liveusb.info/dotclear/
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:04 AM, wrote:
> Hi
>
> It is possible that in a memory usb they can put on several systems
> operative (for ISOs or another form) to install some PC, that is to say
> that can
> to have, Ubuntu, windows xp an
On May 27, 2011 2:50 PM, "Hugo Vanwoerkom" wrote:
>
> co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> It is possible that in a memory usb they can put on several systems
>> operative (for ISOs or another form) to install some PC, that is to say
>> that can
>> to have, Ubuntu, windows xp and that when
co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote:
Hi
It is possible that in a memory usb they can put on several systems
operative (for ISOs or another form) to install some PC, that is to say
that can
to have, Ubuntu, windows xp and that when beginning for usb me of the
possibility to choose which operating system
Hi
It is possible that in a memory usb they can put on several systems
operative (for ISOs or another form) to install some PC, that is to say
that can
to have, Ubuntu, windows xp and that when beginning for usb me of the
possibility to choose which operating system wants to install??
regards
Cos
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:26 AM, wolf python london
wrote:
> On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote:
>>
>> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and
>> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use
>> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:19 AM, consul tores wrote:
>
> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and
> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use
> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can
> not recognize OpenBSD (what is not a problem), an
On 4 May 2011 10:33, consul tores wrote:
> 2011/5/3 wolf python london :
>> On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and
>>> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use
>>> lilo, it works correctly, but i wan
2011/5/3 wolf python london :
> On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and
>> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use
>> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can
>> not recognize
On 3 May 2011 15:19, consul tores wrote:
> Hello
>
> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and
> Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use
> lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can
> not recognize OpenBSD (what is not a problem), and i
On Tue, 03 May 2011 00:19:20 -0700, consul tores wrote:
> i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and Slackware64-13.37:
> and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use lilo, it works correctly,
> but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can not recognize OpenBSD (what is
> not a problem),
Hello
i have a Laptop with Squeeze, OpenBSD-amd64-4.9, and
Slackware64-13.37: and it is using grub2 as bootloader, (if i use
lilo, it works correctly, but i want to evade bios check) grub2 can
not recognize OpenBSD (what is not a problem), and it recognize
Slackware, but can not start it. it only
go
~
Even though I almost exclusively work on Linux/Debian, I need to
build a multiboot PC and one of the critical points to me is for the
box to easily go into hibernation (and back ;-)) in no time and with
no problem whatsoever. I know the combination of right hard- and
software is very importan
and type/quality of memory + SSD and
> harddrives (+ mainboard/processor)) that would let you grow as you go
> ~
> Even though I almost exclusively work on Linux/Debian, I need to
> build a multiboot PC and one of the critical points to me is for the
> box to easily go into hibernation (a
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:27:12 +, Albretch Mueller wrote:
(...)
> Even though I almost exclusively work on Linux/Debian, I need to
> build a multiboot PC and one of the critical points to me is for the box
> to easily go into hibernation (and back ;-)) in no time and with no
h I almost exclusively work on Linux/Debian, I need to
build a multiboot PC and one of the critical points to me is for the
box to easily go into hibernation (and back ;-)) in no time and with
no problem whatsoever. I know the combination of right hard- and
software is very important for that to happen saf
With LVM you could put anything on logical partitions which can be
created/increased/decreased/dropped as necessary.
You need a small separate boot partition, which can be shared between
both systems.
You might want to create a swap partition, which also is shared, maybe a
separate partiti
I'll be installing Lenny on an IBM R-40 laptop. I want to have
WinXP, Lenny (with KDE, bells and whistles) and another
Lenny(with Fluxbox, pared down to just what I need, and used for
some experimenting). I want the two Lennys to share the files in
the data partition.
While all the normal dat
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:20:43PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan
> (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly
> > reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some fre
> So if I understand it correctly it is not multiboot situation.
Indeed. For multiboot, you can use the same setup if all your
alternative boots understand LVM (e.g. various versions of GNU/Linux),
or if your other OSes are run from within GNU/Linux (e.g. with
VirtualBox). That's usu
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan
(zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote:
> If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly
> reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some free space
> unformatted not controlled by lvm?
You can, but that'll be a lot
>>> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm
>>> partitions.
>>
>> Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root
>> drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single
>> partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I also do that for
>>
2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier :
>> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm
>> partitions.
>
> Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root
> drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single
> partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I a
ate partitions for /var /usr etc?
>
> He means that the boot partitions of his secondary and external drives
> are unused, since /boot only exists on his root drive. /var and /usr
> can be created as logical volumes on top of the single partition used
> by LVM
>
> Celejar
So if I u
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500
zhang zhengquan wrote:
> 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier :
> >> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm
> >> partitions.
> >
> > Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root
> > drives with a 100-200MB /boot partit
> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm
> partitions.
Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root
drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single
partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I also do that for
secondary&external
2009/4/2 Eloillaf Mhamed :
>
>
>
>
>
> - Message d'origine
> De : zhang zhengquan
> À : debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s
> Objet : lvm and multiboot
>
> Hello, Debian community,
> I have got a 250
- Message d'origine
De : zhang zhengquan
À : debian-user@lists.debian.org
Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s
Objet : lvm and multiboot
Hello, Debian community,
I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny
installation. I have met with partition
Hello, Debian community,
I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny
installation. I have met with partition size problems before so this
time I would use LVM. and since it will be a server so /var /srv etc
will grow in size later on. at the same time I would like to have 50G
left
Sudev Barar wrote:
> I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian
> and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to
> Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing.
>
> Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc.
> working when I switch from
On 26/03/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 26/03/2008, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You can even mount /home and use the same username/uid
> > on every distro.
>
>
> Fedora and Debian use different UIDs. Let's say that Fedora set up
> user "bob" with UID "1000". Ho
On 26/03/2008, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can even mount /home and use the same username/uid
> on every distro.
Fedora and Debian use different UIDs. Let's say that Fedora set up
user "bob" with UID "1000". How does should Debian be configured so
that "bob" is UID 1000 in it as
> also works. Is there any other directory I need to be linking?
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:09:27PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
> I solved this by making a link to the following directories in my home
> of second and third OS (note the ".")
> .ssh
> .mozilla
> .mozilla-thunderbird
> .gnupg
> .tomboy
Sudev Barar wrote:
I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian
and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to
Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing.
Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc.
working when I switch from distro to
I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian
and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to
Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing.
Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc.
working when I switch from distro to distro. I solved thi
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation,
testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the
partit
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:02:13PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
> > instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
> instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
> workstation for the daily work, and the other for experime
Frank McCormick wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install
two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, an
Frank McCormick wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install
two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, an
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
> > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install
> > two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
> > workstation for the daily work, and the other f
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation,
testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the
partit
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:56:21AM -0500, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
> I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
> instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
> workstation for the daily work, and the other
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation,
testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the
partit
I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install two
instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation,
testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the
partition that I like based on th
hi ya tony
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Tony Middleton wrote:
> I have a machine that is similar with Windows 98 and two Linux systems.
nah... you have ONE linux syste... with 2 different kernel
( vmlinux(linux) vs vmlinux.old(oldlinux) )
>
> image = /vmlinuz
>label = Linux
>root=/d
I have a machine that is similar with Windows 98 and two Linux systems.
My lilo.conf is as below:
boot = /dev/hda1
compact
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
single-key
verbose = 2
bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sarge.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=/b
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