Triple boot puppy, windows, Linux - Solved

[wimpy]

I have a frugal Lucid 5.2.8 on a dedicated hard disk (ext4), with grub4dos doing the booting. I intend to add another HDD and install WinXP and another Linux distro on it. The WinXP is purely for games and the Linux distro for testing. I may well uninstall the Linux distro and replace it with another one, after testing. I would prefer not to lose the Lucid and grub4dos bootloader, since they work very well at the moment. Any advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Jim1911]

Keep a disk copy of a pup such as Slacko that has no problem accessing your ntfs partition. Lucid 5.28 should work fine. After installation of ubuntu or other OS, insert your disk, Boot puppy into ram, and reinstall grub4dos. You will probably want to edit your new menu.lst but the reinstall will save a copy of your old one.

This is necessary because the new linux or windows installation will replace your mbr and will not detect your frugal pups. Grub4dos will detect all OS.

[wimpy]

Thanks for the reply. That makes it a lot easier than I thought. Just one thing - I expect that I will replace the Linux distro, Mint 15.0 (say) with another one - probably the Mint Debian edition. Will I just need to edit menu.lst or will I have to uninstall Grub4Dos and re-install it?

[ally]

hey wimpy

you just need to re-run grub4dos

[wimpy]

That's great. I'll mark this as "Solved". I'm really grateful for the help and info. Thank you, Jim and ally.