Hi
I have just switched from Hardy to Karmic (KDE 4.3) and absolutely love it!! It has been sitting on my laptop for a long time, mostly unused, just tested from time to time. But now with the last 100 or so updates, everything (or almost) runs without a glitch, including compiz. It's an absolute gem! (and by the way, Snowhog - wifi is tremendous without WICD!)
However, I am not throwing away trusted Hardy just yet. And I have to keep Windows for a couple of apps that Wine can't handle. So I have triple boot systems on both my laptops. I may have been lucky not to nuke them both because I now find this in the Karmic Kubuntuguide (http://kubuntuguide.org/Karmic):
DO NOT USE the Karmic Koala Desktop edition if you use a boot partition, use : multiple OS (more than 2), or chainload bootloaders. The Kubuntu installer will overwrite your Master Boot Record and you will later be forced to recreate it.
What exactly does that mean in plain English? I downloaded the "Live CD", checked hash sums and installed the same way I always do, by choosing the manual option, deleting one of the two existing Kubuntu partitions and accepting default for GRUB - thereby accepting Grub 2, which on the surface does not behave very differently from legacy Grub, except that I have to edit a different file afterwards. Was I lucky to get away from this operation alive?
I guess there are many people who will be tempted to try the Lynx before it is stable, who also need the much-loathed Win for some tasks, and who absolutely need a stable (K)ubuntu. So just what are we grandmas supposed to do?
But wow, Karmic is really superb!
I see Snowhog had a post in January about tripple booting, and I gather the operation for him was far more complicated, if crowned with jubilant success. However, he does not explain all his moves. And most of us cannot deal with heavy Grub editing, not to mention "recreation" of "Master Boot Record".
I have just switched from Hardy to Karmic (KDE 4.3) and absolutely love it!! It has been sitting on my laptop for a long time, mostly unused, just tested from time to time. But now with the last 100 or so updates, everything (or almost) runs without a glitch, including compiz. It's an absolute gem! (and by the way, Snowhog - wifi is tremendous without WICD!)
However, I am not throwing away trusted Hardy just yet. And I have to keep Windows for a couple of apps that Wine can't handle. So I have triple boot systems on both my laptops. I may have been lucky not to nuke them both because I now find this in the Karmic Kubuntuguide (http://kubuntuguide.org/Karmic):
DO NOT USE the Karmic Koala Desktop edition if you use a boot partition, use : multiple OS (more than 2), or chainload bootloaders. The Kubuntu installer will overwrite your Master Boot Record and you will later be forced to recreate it.
What exactly does that mean in plain English? I downloaded the "Live CD", checked hash sums and installed the same way I always do, by choosing the manual option, deleting one of the two existing Kubuntu partitions and accepting default for GRUB - thereby accepting Grub 2, which on the surface does not behave very differently from legacy Grub, except that I have to edit a different file afterwards. Was I lucky to get away from this operation alive?
I guess there are many people who will be tempted to try the Lynx before it is stable, who also need the much-loathed Win for some tasks, and who absolutely need a stable (K)ubuntu. So just what are we grandmas supposed to do?
But wow, Karmic is really superb!
I see Snowhog had a post in January about tripple booting, and I gather the operation for him was far more complicated, if crowned with jubilant success. However, he does not explain all his moves. And most of us cannot deal with heavy Grub editing, not to mention "recreation" of "Master Boot Record".
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