[Gllug] GRUB

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

VM ware was an option I originally considered but it costs £300 per 
machine and to be honest I would rather spend my budget on network 
switches, routers servers and beer, hence the GRUB query.  However if 
the designers wanted VM ware that badly....

I have a couple of spare Celeron boxes and lots of spare IDE drives 
ranging from 1.2 to 8gb each so setting up 98 on the 1st partition of 
the master IDE should mean that everything else will fall into place.

I am going to try GRUB anyhow if it all ends in tears I will convince 
the designers that VM ware is something that they really need to buy.

Thanks for the advice

Jim

On Monday, August 6, 2001, at 05:36 PM, 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
>>
>> "The purpose of propaganda is not to change the peoples minds but to
>> convince them  of our common belief."
>>
>> --Joseph Goebbels, The Diaries
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