Okedokey
Well-Known Member
Run it in a VM i guess.
Back to the OP, EasyBCD is awesome. The rule of thumb as i said before, oldest to earliest, default bios, only essentials peripherals and you will have a very good start.
How do you install multiple OS's?
- Thread starter Captain Kirk
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Run it in a VM i guess.
Back to the OP, EasyBCD is awesome. The rule of thumb as i said before, oldest to earliest, default bios, only essentials peripherals and you will have a very good start.
NyxCharon
Active Member
You just install linux and then GRUB finds all your OS'es and makes a menu for you without you having to lift a finger. Not sure how anyone wouldn't like that. Granted, sometimes you might have to run update-grub in a terminal, but that's almost nothing to get a multiboot setup with linux.
So hard.
wolfeking
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It is not hard at all. Though sometimes it can be a bit tricky to get it to find all of the OSs. I know when I triple booted XP, 7 and Ubuntu I hated the Grub setup because I would have options of linux or windows and then once windows was selected I could select XP or 7. kind of time consuming, but most people don't have that problem. 99.999999999% of the time the most in depth thing to set it up right is to run sudo update-grub. Ubuntu does that automatically though. So that is good.
AntimatterAsh
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Bit off topic but 2 questions. Is Debian able to do this and can I run RedHat drivers on debian?
NyxCharon
Active Member
Yes. And no. You need to use the software from the debian repository in debian, vice versa for redhat. Although, almost all drivers are the same and are just packaged for each system depending on what they use.
Debian is not the most friendly OS. Something based on it like Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is great for beginners, while still being debian based.
Captain Kirk
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"It does not require windows 7 at all."
That's strange, because that's what the BCD description said!! I don't understand. You are saying something different from what the program's webpage was saying???
EclipticShell,
Most Excellent Dude: I can use this. This is just what I need. I'll give it a try and see if it does the trick!!!
"If you want to use DOS, why dont you just run it in a VM?"
When I run DOS in a VM, I am not able to install another OS because it does not have enough memory to run it from the RAM!
If I was going to load a program into virtual memory, I might as well use Linux over DOS!
The point is, is that I am using this as a "backup [plan A] repair tool".
NyxCharon,
I only know the bare minimum of Linux -- Gparted, how to install, partition, and that's just about it. I ONLY use linux as a repair tool...
And so I couldn't imagine how to even BEGIN to do a multi OS install with it. As a multi OS install, XP and Puppy failed; as XP ALWAYS booted, and I could never get into Puppy!!! There was no option upon boot to choose which to load...
"it can be a bit tricky to get it to find all of the OSs"
Not sure how to "find" all of the OS's.
I don't have Ubuntu, so so much for running the sudo update-grub!!
"Is Debian able to do this and can I run RedHat drivers on debian?"
I'm not even past the BEGINNER level when it comes to Linux, so I don't even want to ask what this means.
Capain Kirk
That's strange, because that's what the BCD description said!! I don't understand. You are saying something different from what the program's webpage was saying???
EclipticShell,
Most Excellent Dude: I can use this. This is just what I need. I'll give it a try and see if it does the trick!!!
"If you want to use DOS, why dont you just run it in a VM?"
When I run DOS in a VM, I am not able to install another OS because it does not have enough memory to run it from the RAM!
If I was going to load a program into virtual memory, I might as well use Linux over DOS!
The point is, is that I am using this as a "backup [plan A] repair tool".
NyxCharon,
I only know the bare minimum of Linux -- Gparted, how to install, partition, and that's just about it. I ONLY use linux as a repair tool...
And so I couldn't imagine how to even BEGIN to do a multi OS install with it. As a multi OS install, XP and Puppy failed; as XP ALWAYS booted, and I could never get into Puppy!!! There was no option upon boot to choose which to load...
"it can be a bit tricky to get it to find all of the OSs"
Not sure how to "find" all of the OS's.
I don't have Ubuntu, so so much for running the sudo update-grub!!
"Is Debian able to do this and can I run RedHat drivers on debian?"
I'm not even past the BEGINNER level when it comes to Linux, so I don't even want to ask what this means.
Capain Kirk