On 5/25/10, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am currently using archlinux and windows 7 and want to try out gentoo. > I guess grub will be overwritten by gentoo but will it contain the > options to boot arch kernel images automatically? I really dont wanna > mess up grub.
You'll minimize your grub configuration work and pretty much neutralize any risk to your currently installed OSes by testing and trying out Gentoo in a virtualized system. For example VirtualBox is freely available and takes only a few mouse clicks to configure a virtual machine specifically suitable for Gentoo (or Ubuntu, or Linux Mint, or Fedora, or OpenSUSE, or ...), then you just attach the CD ISO to the virtual machine (clickety-click, 3 clicks if it's on the Desktop?), and boot (doubleclick). Next you do the install, which in Gentoo's case means following the Gentoo Handbook. You can keep important tools like irc-client, your favourite search engine and Gentoo Handbook browser window running in the host OS, jumping between the host and guest with a single mouse click and right ctrl key to get back. And that's just using the default settings out of the box. Try it out once. It hooked me after the 15 minutes it took to make the first virtual image (and that's where I read all the labels and options). Naturally, YMMV. -- Arttu V.
