Dual Boot with Gentoo

yucao89 · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:42 am Post subject: Dual Boot with Gentoo

Dear advanced users
I would like to know if we could make a dual-boot with gentoo the same as the dual-boot in Linux Redhat.
I have windows 2000 server
thanks for reply :roll:

ravenq · Apprentice Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 161

Well, if you're after setting up Gentoo on the Windows 2000 boot menu, go here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=37586 (it seems I keep refering to that post

)

I'm assuming you want to boot Gentoo from the 2000 Bootmenu. However if you want to use Lilo or Grub, then there are plenty of details around on setting those up with Windows to dual-boot.
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yucao89 · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject: So shall i install Gentoo

shall i install gentoo or you recomend me an other LINUX
is gentoo different from other linux?
I am a network student studing basic networking

ravenq · Apprentice Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 161

Ah, okay, I'm following now.

Yes, you can dual boot Gentoo and Windows the same way you dual boot Windows and Red Hat. You'll need to set up the chainloader section of Grub, but there are instructions on how to do that in the install guide, I think.

I'd recommend Gentoo if you've got the time and the patience (everything is compiled from source so it takes a while to install something), but the reward is a fast optimized system.

In other words, yup, by all means, install Gentoo and see what you think

Come back here if you want a hand with different dual booting methods.
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ergodic · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 33 Location: San Diego

Well in this case you might want to play with one of the "easy" distros, like mandrake, SuSE, RedHat etc. Play a little and then install "la mas cojonuda": Gentoo

I wouldn't recommend Gentoo for first Linux install

yucao89 · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:53 pm Post subject: Thanks Are you spanish

thanks i will try to install GENTOO

ravenq · Apprentice Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 161

Ergodic,
Gentoo isn't really all that difficult for a first distribution. It just requires a lot of patience, and people coming from the M$ world probably aren't used to waiting a few hours (or two days for me for KDE

) for their system software to be installed. Assuming you follow the instructions correctly, you'll generally have a successful installation, at least that's what I've found.
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