[wellylug] Grub advise required

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Mon Jul 10 09:59:13 NZST 2006



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Black [mailto:pete at marchingcubes.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 10 July 2006 9:56 a.m.
> To: Wellington Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Grub advise required
> 
> 
> So, you want a Linux user group to install Windows for you? 
> You've got 
> some cajones, i'll give you that.
> 
> Personally, I am not particularly keen to do this for you - 
> installing 
> Windows and troubleshooting its boot issues hold zero interest for me.
> 
> However, it can certainly be done, and you might try following these 
> instructions for grub configuration:
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Booting_Multiple_Windows_Installati
> ons_from_One_Hard_Disk
> 
> You'd need to get grub onto the disk somehow - a Linux liveCD or 
> recovery CD would be a good way to do that.
> 
> Whether the Windows installs will then mount the other partitions and 
> infect them with viruses regardless, I don't know.
> 
> 
> -Pete


No No NO, don't want anyone to help with installing windows, just wanted to
know if Grub could isolate partitions in such a way as to make them
invisible to each other.

Sheesh!




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