Duddits said:
I like GAG because it is absolutely straightforward. I've had all sorts
of trouble installing stuff like Grub to the MBR - you wouldn't believe
the amount of times that Grub has hosed my XP partition. The trick is to
install Grub/Lilo to the partition where you have installed the new OS,
and then get GAG to boot up the relevant partition.
An alternative solution is not to multiboot at all, but to have
different machines for different OSs. Yes, I know it might seem that I'm
being too obvious for words, but the point is: do you really want to
risk hosing your main machine to install another OS? Get a test machine
and a KVM switch. I run a second-hand computer that I bought from
www.itdealers.co.uk . They're currently selling a Compaq Deskpro ENS
PIII-866 Base Units for £64.63, for instance. Buy a KVM switch (about
£30), and you've got yourself a nice little extra PC for under £100. You
might want to slap in some more meory and a graphics card, which
admittedly pushes up the price. OK, so it's not the latest and greatest
PC, but I run Ubuntu on my 800MHz machine. I got rid of Gnome, and
currently use the ratpoison windows manager, and it runs quite fast (it
doesn't particularly like Gnome, though, it has to be said). I can run
both machines at once, and switch via the KVM.
