Dual booting grub2 Linux with frugal Puppy?
Posted: Thu 29 Mar 2012, 07:23
Finally after some 5 years??? 2012 - 5 = 2007
I started 2003 but where slow so 2006 my first Ubuntu CD
then 2008 joined Puppy having been frustrated over
Ubuntu and Linux Mint during 2006 and 2007 so ...
Finally after all those years now I have a dedicated vintage
Desktop. Dell Dimension 4600 with P4 CPU 512MB RAM
and 40GB HD formatted into three partitions and one Swap partition
all having Ext3. And the grub2 is a must due to all big distros
with a few exceptions are now on grub2
So I can play with three different full installs of Linux all the time.
Now I am not only an absolute Nooby I am totally confused and ...
PropellerHead something ADHD. I forgot everything in seconds
or minutes at most. If I write something down then have no idea
what that was all about or where to find it.
So hope you guys can have patience with those features of Nooby.
My problem is that I love Puppy so frugal install of many puppy
should be on that Dell Linux test machine and available at boot.
But is it not true that as soon as I tell the linux installer of any Linux to make
a full install then it will wipe out Puppy from that first partition or second or third.
So I would need to restore all these Puppes for each test of new distro?
so sure I could ahve a backup on DVD multisession for Puppy
and add that one as frugal install each time it gets wiped out?
Is there a more permanent solution possible?
I am not logical but my fuzzy logic suggests that one could do a kind of
back up on partition 2 and 3 of the current best puppies on partition 1.
then install the new linux that wipe out the first puppy and then I restore
that puppy from the back up residing on partition 2 or 3?
Does that sound as the most practical solution. Being dependent on CD
or DVD or USB is not what I long for.
Are there any better solution. Please help!
Edit. A wild thought that maybe is not practical.
I could tell gru4dos to do a install of g4d on second or third?
and then chainload to g4d from grub2?
Or is it possible to have grub4dos on both second and the third partion
and if second get wiped out by a full install then I still have a working one
on the last partion and all of these available as chain load from grub2?
Now I have no idea how one set that up or it it work at all?
This link is to a thread about how to dual boot with Ubuntu Linux Mint
and it partially instruct me how to start on my journey
but it does not solve my personal dilemma that it gets wiped out
each time I test a new distro.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74248
I started 2003 but where slow so 2006 my first Ubuntu CD
then 2008 joined Puppy having been frustrated over
Ubuntu and Linux Mint during 2006 and 2007 so ...
Finally after all those years now I have a dedicated vintage
Desktop. Dell Dimension 4600 with P4 CPU 512MB RAM
and 40GB HD formatted into three partitions and one Swap partition
all having Ext3. And the grub2 is a must due to all big distros
with a few exceptions are now on grub2
So I can play with three different full installs of Linux all the time.
Now I am not only an absolute Nooby I am totally confused and ...
PropellerHead something ADHD. I forgot everything in seconds
or minutes at most. If I write something down then have no idea
what that was all about or where to find it.
So hope you guys can have patience with those features of Nooby.
My problem is that I love Puppy so frugal install of many puppy
should be on that Dell Linux test machine and available at boot.
But is it not true that as soon as I tell the linux installer of any Linux to make
a full install then it will wipe out Puppy from that first partition or second or third.
So I would need to restore all these Puppes for each test of new distro?
so sure I could ahve a backup on DVD multisession for Puppy
and add that one as frugal install each time it gets wiped out?
Is there a more permanent solution possible?
I am not logical but my fuzzy logic suggests that one could do a kind of
back up on partition 2 and 3 of the current best puppies on partition 1.
then install the new linux that wipe out the first puppy and then I restore
that puppy from the back up residing on partition 2 or 3?
Does that sound as the most practical solution. Being dependent on CD
or DVD or USB is not what I long for.
Are there any better solution. Please help!
Edit. A wild thought that maybe is not practical.
I could tell gru4dos to do a install of g4d on second or third?
and then chainload to g4d from grub2?
Or is it possible to have grub4dos on both second and the third partion
and if second get wiped out by a full install then I still have a working one
on the last partion and all of these available as chain load from grub2?
Now I have no idea how one set that up or it it work at all?
This link is to a thread about how to dual boot with Ubuntu Linux Mint
and it partially instruct me how to start on my journey
but it does not solve my personal dilemma that it gets wiped out
each time I test a new distro.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74248