[Gllug] Ubuntu

[Jeff Young]

Hi Simon

I think I have got some major decision to make because
I have been trying Ubuntu on live cd and it is great
but my laptop has made a patition to install SUSE 9.3
using Patition Magic on windows XP already.

If I make another patition for ubuntu, would the grub
handle another patition for ubuntu in a laptop?

is it safe to have triple boot in a system?

Please advise.

Jeff


--- Simon Morris <simon.morris at cmtww.com> wrote:

> 
> Jeff Young wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Would you recommend either to use Ubuntu live or
> have
> > it installed to hard disk ?
> > 
> > If Ubuntu live cd, what are the advantage of
> starting
> > a fresh every time using a live cd?
> 
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> Hmm, by the second paragraph I'm not totally sure if
> you have the
> correct definition of the "live CD"
> 
> The CD is meant to be run from the CD-ROM (duh,
> obviously) but the
> important thing is that is doesn't touch the hard
> drive at all...
> 
> So everytime you reboot from this CD you are
> "starting a fresh" anyway.
> None of your configuration changes survive the
> reboot.
> 
> It is possible to save configuration on a USB memory
> stick for example
> so you can carry your settings across reboots but
> that is above and
> beyond what the live CD is for (though it is very
> nifty and cool)
> 
> So - if the question is do I recommend to use Ubuntu
> Live or have it
> installed on your hard disk... Live is a great
> chance to have a look at
> different distros and see what Linux looks like. If
> you want to start
> using it seriously you need to have it installed so
> you can play with it
> (break it)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ~sm
> 
> 
> 






		
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