Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist

[Eric Shubert]

On 03/06/2012 10:13 AM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
> Eric Shubes wrote, in part:
>> ok to ... dual boot XP/Linux, running VBox on Linux
>> Then you introduced dual booting multiple linux distros along with XP.
>> Not a good idea in this day and age.
>> I think your objective should be to get to the point of having a single
>> linux boot, with VBox running whatever other OSs you want from there,
>> including XP. Forget about dual booting unless it's absolutely necessary
>> to get from here to there.
> [snipped]
>
> Thanks Eric. I certainly do always trust your counsel.
>
> Since I need to be unavailable much of the time until May, I'll have to
> come back to this later. But I just wanted to explain why I had proposed
> the multiple boot scenario.
>
> I really do detest xp and everything M$ and I rarely use it; however,
> since it is on the system and I have way more HD space than I need, I
> thought I might just leave it there and make the proposed triple boot to
> be able to access two different Linux installations for this reason:
>
> Every time I have ever "updated" a Linux distro, it has caused problems,
> and it seems to me that the newer Linux distros have become more bloatware
> and a whole lot less reliable than my "old reliable" system which I
> *never* update and which *never* fails to perform flawlessly (although it
> does have some obvious limitations). Therefore, I would like to install
> that "old reliable" system as one of two Linux options.
>
> In the second Linux installation, I hope to install VirtualBox with xp as
> a virtual option.  But it is because I am apprehensive because of my
> universal and uniform past experience with newer distros that I would like
> to keep that "fall-back" option of "old reliable."  Thus the triple-boot
> notion.

You certainly do want your base OS which runs on the HW to be as 
reliable as possible. Any reason why you can't put your "old reliable" 
distro on the bare iron, then run VB on that with everything else as 
VMs? That's what I would shoot for.

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-Eric 'shubes'