Last Wednesday 20 July 2005 13:54, John Mulholland was
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I have found a great piece of software called
Bootit NG that allows me
to easily try out a few different distros all on the same machine. You
load this sofware at bootup, it then extends the Master Boot Record of
your computer. This allows you more flexibility with partitions and so
on. I am sure this could all be done by an individual distro, buts its
nice to be able to have a program which is point and click simple.
It's not open source sadly :( but it is shareware, and if I recall, its
not too expensive either. I use to use in a test lab to quickly simulate
different MS OSes on the same hardware. But dont let that put you off,
its very linux friendly!
What does it do that GRUB doesn't?
I dont really know what GRUB can and can not do, so cant give that
comparison. For those who have an intricate knowledge of GRUB and fancy
doing a comparison. Here is the BING feature list: