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@xxxxxxxxxx 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
