9 Aug
2004
9 Aug
'04
11:16 a.m.
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 09:10:48 +0000, LinuxMedia
<linuxmedia4(a)netscape.net> wrote:
Maybe I'm confused about this. When I think of
"audio distrobs"
like Planet, I picture wipeing out my hard drive and having just a
dedicated recording environment. But do these run along side an
established distrob (like debian, redhat...)? Do they coexist with
them?
Rocco
Hello Rocco,
Has anybody mentioned this other idea yet?
Using GRUB for the boot loader, you can have multiple Linux systems
on your computer. This allows you to have a general Linux system
for non-music topics, and a dedicated Linux system for the music.
Personal data point:
I have 2 hard drives in the desktop. Hard Drive A (HDA) has Windows
95B on 2 partitions and 1 Linux partition. Hard Drive B (HDB) has 2
Linux partitions. I installed GRUB to the Master Boot Record (MBR)
of HDA.
When I boot up, I can select Windows 95B, Mandrake Linux 9.1, or
Linux From Scratch (LFS) 5.1.1. (Set up GRUB's menu.lst file on HDB
in the Mandrake system correctly.) Windows 95B still has some
legacy music programs that I use, Mandrake Linux 9.1 does all the
email, web browsing, and office work, and the LFS I'm currently
building will be a dedicated music box. I'll be using IceWm for the
window manager on LFS, and I plan to build everything from tarballs;
no package manager of any kind.
The Windows system can't see the Linux partitions, but the Linux
systems can see the Windows 95B partitions. I've discovered through
LFS crashes that the Windows partitions are very robust and don't
seem to experience any problems when not unmounted properly. This
has given me the idea to use the Windows partitions as a safe backup
area for Linux tarballs and configuration files.
For LFS to see Mandrake, it was necessary to adjust the fstab file.
You have 2 fstab files: one for the Mandrake system and one for the
LFS system. In the Mandrake fstab, / uses the Mandrake partition
and I used /mnt/lfs for the LFS partition. In the LFS fstab, / uses
the LFS partition and I used /mnt/mandrake for the Mandrake
partition. All other partitions remained the same.
The LFS system will only have the minimal programs needed to build
and support the music applications. (I'm on a PII 350MHz machine.)
More information on LFS can be found at:
http://linuxfromscratch.idge.net/lfs/news.html
Regards,
Stephen.