[Liverpool] Multi-Boot Query

[Dan Lynch]

That tone seems a little uncalled for to me sorry. True this is a Linux User
Group mailing list and this is our primary concern but I didn't answer
Scott's query because I didn't have a useful answer for him and that's all,
I thought someone more knowledgeable would chip in. Perhaps I'm wrong but I
didn't find it offensive just because he mentioned Windows, the question was
about GRUB wasn't it? A FOSS boot loader. Perhaps this list isn't the place
to talk about labelling drives C: in Windows I would agree with that but we
could be a little more gracious in our response I think. Berating people
just makes us look bad and doesn't do our cause any good. I'm the last one
to defend Microsoft or anything they have to do with but that's not what I'm
doing here, I'm defending someone who just asked a question. I didn't see
anything unreasonable about it.

Not trying to cause trouble, I would hope we can all get along and help each
other out where appropriate, I thought this was a major part of the function
of a LUG :)

Dan


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Vladimir <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com>wrote:

> scott, it may sound harsh, but a Linux Users' Group maillist is not a place
> to ask a M$ windows question. sorry, for not being "politically correct" but
> go and find tech support from your beloved corporation (either free of
> charge or paid).
>
> have a nice day and use open source!
>
> kind regards,
>
>
> vladimir
>
>
>
>
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> 2009/3/19 Scott Brimin <scott.brimin at gmail.com>
>
>
>> Good evening, y'all.
>>
>> I have need for some advice on a matter of multi-booting OS'. My problem
>> is more specifically windows but my solution is sufficiently 'nix to
>> justify my use of this forum.
>>
>> So here goes it.
>>
>> I'm planning on installing multiple versions and different OS' on my
>> computer. For the sake of simplifying the situation, let's say I want:
>>
>> 1) Windows XP Professional
>> 2) Windows XP Professional (x64)
>> 3) Windows Vista Business
>> 4) Kubuntu 8.10
>>
>>
>> They will all be on a single hard disk with GRUB, naturally, as
>> boot-loader.
>>
>> The problem I foresee is that I want all three Windows to have the same
>> drive letters and setups. But I'm fairly certain that the system drive
>> letters will increment as C, E, F. I want all system drives to be C.
>>
>> I've taken a look at grub and I know it can hide partitions and swap
>> partition positions.
>>
>> Can anyone offer any advice, docs and/or help to solve my problems?
>>
>> Please and thank you.
>>
>>
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