srini srini wrote:
Hello,
I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with
different other OS'es including windows.
As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go
about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB.
Can anyone help me about this.
TIA
--SR--
Its been a long while since I did this but this was how I did it. I had
a common /boot for all OS's, then separate partitions/drives for the
rest of the OS's. If you run all the distros with pretty close to the
same versions of desktop and such, you may can get away with a common
/home. If one OS is running KDE3 and another KDE4, then you may run
into issues. I'm sure there are other issues you need to look into as
well.
I used lilo a VERY long time ago. Once I used grub, I never used lilo
again. If the distros you chose is using the new Grub then use the new
one for them all. If all use the older one, then use it. If it is a
mix of those, then you need to look into ways to get them to all use the
same or chainload them somehow. To me, that sounds complicated. At
some point, I would pick a distro and stick with it. No issue with
folks trying out different ones but why update and hang onto different
ones when you only need one? ;-)
If I set up a system with windoze, I always put windoze on the first
drive, sda, and Linux on the rest. They could share but I just always
liked to keep windoze on its own. I always felt windoze was a virus
itself. It might migrate over to Linux somehow. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
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