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On 5/25/2010 10:34 PM, Arttu V. wrote:
> 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.
>
will try that out soon
thanks :)
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