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Newbie to Unix and needs info!
Post 6386 by ober5861 on Tuesday 4th of September 2001 04:17:47 PM
09-04-2001
more answers: 
1) Personally, I wouldn't mess with Partition Magic to do your dual booting. I'd go with whatever boot manager your linux/unix (*nix) distrobution has. A current copy should set up the boot manager almost completely for you. LILO is excellent.
2) As I said *nix can use a variety of formats. Just partition the drive and let your *nix distro do the formatting.
3) Quite stable... I've never heard any complaints about any type of *nix formatting. (someone please correct me if this is not true, but I have yet to hear of problems with it)
4) Not sure what you mean by that one... I think you are referring to the approx. 8 gig architecture of the FAT32 formatting... it's not a big deal these days. Partition to the size where your heart is content.
5) Umm... no? once again, not sure what you're getting at..
6) False.. you are getting bad information, or outdated at best. There is no truth to that statement to my knowledge. That really doesn't make any logical sense if you think about it.
7) umm... not sure off hand. I don't know if there is a comprehensive comparison of ALL of them.
8) more than you think. There is Solaris (Sun), HP-UX (HP, duh), FreeBSD, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSe, AIX, etc, etc... those are the big ones... there are many others and I'm sure hacked versions that people have created on their own.
9) Decision... all dependant on your wants/needs. I'd suggest Mandrake/Suse to start out with... they're the most user friendly. But it all depends on you personally. I know people that swear by Redhat, and some that swear by Solaris... I swear by Mandrake.
10) PIII processors are fine... I'm a fan of AMD, but that's just stating a preference.
11) Not sure about AOL... I'm sure they probably have a *nix distrobution, but you may want to check into it. I know they have Instant Messenger or some variation of it for Linux, but I'm not sure about the full blown version.
Hope that helps.
1) Personally, I wouldn't mess with Partition Magic to do your dual booting. I'd go with whatever boot manager your linux/unix (*nix) distrobution has. A current copy should set up the boot manager almost completely for you. LILO is excellent.
2) As I said *nix can use a variety of formats. Just partition the drive and let your *nix distro do the formatting.
3) Quite stable... I've never heard any complaints about any type of *nix formatting. (someone please correct me if this is not true, but I have yet to hear of problems with it)
4) Not sure what you mean by that one... I think you are referring to the approx. 8 gig architecture of the FAT32 formatting... it's not a big deal these days. Partition to the size where your heart is content.
5) Umm... no? once again, not sure what you're getting at..
6) False.. you are getting bad information, or outdated at best. There is no truth to that statement to my knowledge. That really doesn't make any logical sense if you think about it.
7) umm... not sure off hand. I don't know if there is a comprehensive comparison of ALL of them.
8) more than you think. There is Solaris (Sun), HP-UX (HP, duh), FreeBSD, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSe, AIX, etc, etc... those are the big ones... there are many others and I'm sure hacked versions that people have created on their own.
9) Decision... all dependant on your wants/needs. I'd suggest Mandrake/Suse to start out with... they're the most user friendly. But it all depends on you personally. I know people that swear by Redhat, and some that swear by Solaris... I swear by Mandrake.
10) PIII processors are fine... I'm a fan of AMD, but that's just stating a preference.
11) Not sure about AOL... I'm sure they probably have a *nix distrobution, but you may want to check into it. I know they have Instant Messenger or some variation of it for Linux, but I'm not sure about the full blown version.
Hope that helps.
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grub - GRand Unified Bootloader software on Solaris DESCRIPTION
The current release of the Solaris operating system is shipped with the GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) software. GRUB is developed and supported by the Free Software Foundation. The overview for the GRUB Manual, accessible at www.gnu.org, describes GRUB: Briefly, a boot loader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring con- trol to an operating system kernel software (such as Linux or GNU Mach). The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system (for example, a GNU [Ed. note: or Solaris] system). GNU GRUB is a very powerful boot loader that can load a wide variety of free, as well as proprietary, operating systems, by means of chain- loading. GRUB is designed to address the complexity of booting a personal computer; both the program and this manual are tightly bound to that computer platform, although porting to other platforms may be addressed in the future. [Ed. note: Sun has ported GRUB to the Solaris operating system.] One of the important features in GRUB is flexibility; GRUB understands filesystems and kernel executable formats, so you can load an arbi- trary operating system the way you like, without recording the physical position of your kernel on the disk. Thus you can load the kernel just by specifying its file name and the drive and partition where the kernel resides. Among Solaris machines, GRUB is supported on x86 platforms. The GRUB software that is shipped with Solaris adds two utilities not present in the open-source distribution: bootadm(1M) Enables you to manage the boot archive and make changes to the GRUB menu. installgrub(1M) Loads the boot program from disk. Both of these utilities are described in Solaris man pages. Beyond these two Solaris-specific utilities, the GRUB software is described in the GRUB manual, a PDF version of which is available from the Sun web site. Available in the same location is the grub(8) open-source man page. This man page describes the GRUB shell. SEE ALSO
boot(1M), bootadm(1M), installgrub(1M) Solaris Express Installation Guide: Basic Installations System Administration Guide: Basic Administration http://www.gnu.org/software/grub SunOS 5.11 21 Apr 2005 grub(5)