[Gllug] GRUB

[Xander D Harkness]

If the vmware files are put in one location on an nfs share, and vmware 
on each person's machine usethe file, they are only installed once on a 
single machine and have only used one licence :-)

Cheers
Xander

mallum wrote:
> An easier solution to get all these OS's to play nicely with each
> other on the same box maybe to consider using vmware, espesially 
> if its just to test different browser enviroments.
> 
> mallum 
> 
> 
> on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:10:53PM +0000, Jim Bailey wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>has anyone had much experience with GRUB as a loader as I need to set up 
>>a couple of test machines to run numerous OS's and variants of browsers 
>>for our developers to test on and I thought GRUB would be a good choice 
>>as it doesn't require a specific OS to boot from or to and has a 
>>graphical option.
>>
>>Here is a list of OS's and browsers I need to boot to (non exhaustive):
>>
>>- win nt service pack 6, running ie 4.0
>>- win 2k, running ie 5.0
>>- win 2k, running ie 5.5
>>- win 98, running ie 4.0
>>- win 98 running ie 5.0
>>- win nt running ie 5.0
>>- a windows machine running aol
>>- Linux box running Netscape 4.x
>>- Linux box running Netscape 6.x
>>- Linux box running Mozilla latest
>>- Linux box running Konqueror
>>- Linux box running Galeon
>>
>>Some of these browser can exist on the same partition and some can not, 
>>what I want is something that the designers can use unsupported to 
>>select their choices.
>>
>>Thanks Jim
>>
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>>
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