Hi, thanks for a very good program. I will dl 2.0 later. I use 1.7.2 now.
I have Vista and only one partition.
So I used Ubuntu wubi to get a menu.lst to make change in and then Neogrub to add a triple boot with 5 Puppy Linux in frugal install.
But I also wanted to test Linux Mint and SuperOS and KDE and X versions of Ubuntu and other such derivatives .
Now that is way above my understanding and Ubuntu from 9.10 or maybe earlier have started with Grub2 so that makes it even more involved knowing how to use such.
But more by accident I did happen to hit the right button on NeoGrub. Thanks indeed for an intuitive program.
Everybody told me to use Grub4Dos but I have no idea how to use that one. Or maybe I failed to get the right one.
Anyway.
Do I really need the wubi to run Ubuntu in frugal install?
suppose I uninstall the wubi and start up the EBCD and Neogrub. Can I use that one to add a boot thing that will be a choice when the computer start?
And then I need to learn how to hide the different Ubuntu installations from each other without doing any partitioning.
Now I hide them by using a subdirectory and when I want to test the other I have to manually drag the current one into a new sub and unhide the one I want to use. Not practical.
So I hope EasyBCD with Neogrub can do a kind of Grub2 that keep the Ubuntus knowing wich casper folder then should use? Maybe like this?
Ubuntu 10.04 casper folder
Linux Mint 8.0 casper(2) folder
SuperOS 9.10 casper(3) folder
Can one do a kind of grub2 reference that Linux Mint look for casper but get redirected to casper(2) and in this way it get it right.
Most likely this is just my naive wild guess because I am a complete idiot on computers.
Does any of you get any clue on if EBCD and NeoGrub can do such commands that makes the different Ubuntus be able to discern which is their casper folder to be loaded from same partition.
In case any of you wonder what frugal install is? It is like a Live CD session in that the loader boot intrd and vmlinuz and start the program as of it was a Cd.
So it doesn't save anything unless you know how to using a casper-rw file which I still fail to do but the frugal install works very well for me now. I have used it some 10 times now for two days and it just works. And rather fast too. Much better than on CD and virtualbox.
One can save bookmarks in Firefox addon online and and save on the NTFS HDD by downloading what one can not save is language and keyboard settings and updates.
So it has many good sides and a few drawbacks. I can live with them. By using frugal I save my partition so I have the two years warranty.
I have Vista and only one partition.
So I used Ubuntu wubi to get a menu.lst to make change in and then Neogrub to add a triple boot with 5 Puppy Linux in frugal install.
But I also wanted to test Linux Mint and SuperOS and KDE and X versions of Ubuntu and other such derivatives .
Now that is way above my understanding and Ubuntu from 9.10 or maybe earlier have started with Grub2 so that makes it even more involved knowing how to use such.
But more by accident I did happen to hit the right button on NeoGrub. Thanks indeed for an intuitive program.
Everybody told me to use Grub4Dos but I have no idea how to use that one. Or maybe I failed to get the right one.
Anyway.
Do I really need the wubi to run Ubuntu in frugal install?
suppose I uninstall the wubi and start up the EBCD and Neogrub. Can I use that one to add a boot thing that will be a choice when the computer start?
And then I need to learn how to hide the different Ubuntu installations from each other without doing any partitioning.
Now I hide them by using a subdirectory and when I want to test the other I have to manually drag the current one into a new sub and unhide the one I want to use. Not practical.
So I hope EasyBCD with Neogrub can do a kind of Grub2 that keep the Ubuntus knowing wich casper folder then should use? Maybe like this?
Ubuntu 10.04 casper folder
Linux Mint 8.0 casper(2) folder
SuperOS 9.10 casper(3) folder
Can one do a kind of grub2 reference that Linux Mint look for casper but get redirected to casper(2) and in this way it get it right.
Most likely this is just my naive wild guess because I am a complete idiot on computers.
Does any of you get any clue on if EBCD and NeoGrub can do such commands that makes the different Ubuntus be able to discern which is their casper folder to be loaded from same partition.
In case any of you wonder what frugal install is? It is like a Live CD session in that the loader boot intrd and vmlinuz and start the program as of it was a Cd.
So it doesn't save anything unless you know how to using a casper-rw file which I still fail to do but the frugal install works very well for me now. I have used it some 10 times now for two days and it just works. And rather fast too. Much better than on CD and virtualbox.
One can save bookmarks in Firefox addon online and and save on the NTFS HDD by downloading what one can not save is language and keyboard settings and updates.
So it has many good sides and a few drawbacks. I can live with them. By using frugal I save my partition so I have the two years warranty.
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