Grub on floppy

Bill Case billlinux at rogers.com
Tue May 24 14:29:29 UTC 2005


Thanks Phil;

I am going to retry over the next couple of days, using your advice.

I'll post the outcome here.

On Mon, 2005-23-05 at 23:47 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> Given your earlier description, experience with my wife, and tales
> from
> other Linux users with Windows-wives of my acquaintance, YES - you can
> still get into big trouble!  :-)  Hopefully not too much.
> 
I like sharing your sense of humour.  For the record, after 30 years I
still love her and her Windows dearly.

> > > ------------------------ Cut Here -----------------------
> > I liked your script.  Is it necessary to copy grub each time and why
> do
> > you have to re-mkdir?
> 
> Assumes a new GRUB floppy image is being created each time.
> 
> > 
> > Regards Bill
> 
> You could run the script on your Fedora system, then mount the floppy
> (as /media/floppy) and edit /media/floppy/grub/grub.conf to change
> things to match the Ubuntu system on your wife's box; however, would
> still need details such as what lives on what partition to advise
> further.
> 
> Regards,
> Phil

Regards Bill




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