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Skriven 2007-01-16 14:18:34 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: Fun find from the past
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Alan Hess wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 AH> Whilst masticating on <Jan 13 07>, David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306)
 AH> wrote to Andy Ball:

DC> I have had tremendous success putting Ubuntu (used to use Knoppix 
DC> but Ubuntu upgrades way better) into the hands of non-technical 
DC> former windows users. They only need a bit of guidance in order 
DC> to understand what is happening. They won't instantly turn into 
DC> senior linux systems administrators and know how to manage a 
DC> large installation of servers, but then again, that is a good 
DC> thing or people like me wouldn't be making the big bucks :) 

 AH> I now have Ubuntu installed on my slave drive, after it killed my
 AH> eCS 1.2 setup on my master drive (which, after nine days of no
 AH> success with DFSEE, despite Jan's help, was finally restored by a
 AH> crash recovery store) while installing Ubuntu (while eCS was dead,
 AH> I reinstalled Ubuntu on the second drive with the master
 AH> disconnected.)  Since I got eCS restored, I've been afraid to boot
 AH> to Ubuntu, for fear of messing up the master drive again.  I know
 AH> nothing about Linux, and am far from an OS/2 expert.

 AH> Is it safe to boot to Linux (Airboot recognizes it as bootable?) 
 AH> And is there any quick way to get a useable understanding of Ubuntu
 AH> Linux?  *adh* 

First, when it asked whether you wanted to install the Linux Grub boot loader
into the master boot record of the master drive, you wanted to say no! Instead,
you wanted to install Grub into the boot record of the partition that you
installed Ubuntu into and then configure your ECS boot loader (Airboot
apperently) to also boot the other partition. 

Yes it should be safe to boot to your Ubuntu partition. It shouldn't overwrite
the MBR unless you edit the grub boot files. However, before you do go there,
you might want to google 'changing grub from mbr to partition linux' or
something similar and see if there are simple instructions for changing the
Linux from thinking that the proper place for Grub's files is the MBR of the
master drive. If it forces a write back, it will overwrite the OS2 thing again.
I am unsure why Grub didn't pickup and offer the ECS install, but I have never
bothered to try a Linux on my OS2 system. My only OS2 system is the BBS and I
have never intended to install Linux on it. However, I've built numerous dual
boot Windows/Linux systems over the years and rarely had problems if I
installed Windows first. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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