[Gllug] GRUB

mallum breakfast at 10.am
Mon Aug 6 17:36:50 UTC 2001


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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