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Simple question: I want to install slack on my extra partition. I have Jamd on my main partition which I want to keep as I quite like it.
I am not too worried about installing slack, but all i need to know is if during the install, Slack will let me create a boot disk so I do not need to modify grub. What I want to do is have a boot disk for slack but continue to use Grub to get into Jamd.
OK, I've always used LILO and never used Grub, so this may be a stupid question, but:
Won't Grub give you the choice of booting either Jamd or Slack? I mean, isn't that what it's for, to give you a choice of which OS you want to boot? Or is it just so difficult to configure that you don't want to try it?
Both LILO and GRUB enable you to multiboot several OS's with ease - in Synedoche's situation I would just let Slack install LILO to the MBR and then put an entry into lilo.conf for JAMD from Slack.
Well, for one thing, I prefer Grub to Lilo. Second, I've had bad luck configuring my bootloader in the past and I thought if Slack gave me the option of creating a boot disk it would save me some trouble.
I haven't had a chance to try yet-- my other hobby (my bass guitar) is sort of taking precedence at the moment. I've just had it refinished and I am still putting it all back together.
I hope to try slack out on Sunday night or Monday.
I don't get it. I suppose making a boot disk may be less risky than configuring a bootloader and that may save some 'work' in the short-term. But keeping a boot floppy handy, yet clean, and then putting it in every time you want to boot into Slack . . . that sounds to me like more work. Oh well, that's the beauty of Linux: anyone can screw up, err I mean SET up their system to their own taste :-)
1) I want to keep my bootloader (Grub) as it is.
2) I am not handy enough with Grub to easily add Slack to it
3) I am adding Slack to a partition that will likely change frequently as it is a "test" partition
4) If I like Slack enough, I will find it easier to copy the settings from the boot disk into Grub than coming up with them on my own
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