Hi;
I have been playing with this for three or four days and still haven't got it right. Any help would be appreciated.
I run Fedora on my own basement machine. I have installed Ubantu on my wife's WindowsXP upstairs - with her very grudging permission. Family diplomacy suggestes that I do not make her machine a dual boot. (Dual booting would just serve has a constant reminder that I have been screwing around with her machine. Any time something goes wrong it will be Linux's and consequently my fault.)
What grub files should I but on a floppy to give me a dual boot into her system? I would use the floppy as sort of a key. Will I still want or need /root? Is there a way that I can get to the Linux on her system while I am on my own Fedora downstairs?
Why not just use grub the way it's meant to be used, but hide the menu and give it a short timeout?
Probably you can handle a 2-3 seconds timeout (if you don't go to sleep).
Are any of you married? Can I really get into big trouble doing this?
I am. My wife does not have dual-boot, she only has Ubuntu (Warty). Until recently it was still a prerelease - I'd been installing daily and complaining about what didn't work (the box has the special point of having a prism54 wireless card in it).
I was very surprised she accepted Gnome - previously she'd only used KDE (and before that fvwm), I fully expected to be installing Sarge once I finished playing.
It is possible to get into trouble.
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