[LUAU] yes...was Re: Is this list still alive...

Jim Roby jim at jimroby.com
Sun May 11 18:51:14 PDT 2008


Done Peter. TKX
Gparted was right on the menu system of Gibbon,but not Huron.But...alls 
I had to do was pick it from a list and click install.

Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2008 12:51:27 Jim Roby wrote:
>   
>> Great,so Grub is located in the MBR but refers to it's menu list inside
>> the default partition.?
>> Ubuantu is listed as the default,but it also list two other iterations
>> of the same OS,one seems like a diagnostic and the other a memory check 
>> shell.Then comes the line Other OS and below that Win2K.I was able to access 
>> the Grub shell but it would'nt accept changes,probably since I wasn't root 
>> and logged in. Thanks Jason. 
>>     
>
> If your Windows 2000 partition is hosed, and you don't want to repair, 
> reinstall, or otherwise fix it, you might want to get rid of the partition 
> that it sits on, and expand the one Ubuntu sits on. This is a bit more 
> involved, in that you need to know which partition is which, and you may need 
> to edit, not only menu.lst, but also your /etc/fstab file. The advantage you 
> get is extra disk space for Linux.
>
> The tool I use for editing partitions is the Gparted disk:
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
>
> I second the recommendation for Hardy Heron.
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