Comments | laura_seabrook: GRUBing around with Linux

laura_seabrook

GRUBing around with Linux

Mar 12, 2009 12:35

Don'tcha just love it - I installed SUSE 11.0 and it booted OK, once (the idea was to Install SUSE, followed by UBUNTU and have a dual boot option, so that I could run different packages ( Read more... )

linux, windows, frustration

Comments 2

zelieq March 13 2009, 10:39:00 UTC

i've often thought one of linux's biggest failures is there are too many distros, and the innovation is spread too thinly over them all.

that said, i'd just pick a distro and go with it. one OS is enough.

laura_seabrook March 14 2009, 05:23:03 UTC

Well I got them all to work, after maybe 20 hours of fucking around. The correct sequence was:
1. remove extra drive that thought it was drive "a"
2. Install SUSE first
3. Install Ubuntu next, and use Ubuntu Grub loader

I the drive for Linux was so I could install Second Life Browser and run it several times. Gasp - haven't done that yet.