I currently have two linux applications and Windows on my primary harddrive with a grub menu for booting. I just installed DSL on a Passport external harddrive along with storage formatted in FAT32. I thought it would be great for file recovery and it's shaping up well.

I was wanting to add a full sized linux application like Mepis to be able to carry and run portable applications while being able to USB boot. The DSL boots up and runs perfectly. I'm at the point of adding Mepis.

The DSL has a "read only" grub/menu.lst. I used sudo nano to edit, but no luck. How can I edit that file to add my other linux application? If I simply install Mepis would that overwrite the grub of DSL and cause problems with the USB booting or possibly ruin the grub menu that serves the other applications (two linux & XP) on my primary harddrive?

Thanks a lot

Have recently discovered a solution of mounting the partition to be able to edit the grub menu. Will try that.

If your new solution does not work, try
This will change permissions to be able to write to menu.lst.


Good luck!