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  1. #11
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    Re: Disease!!

    Thanks for that, really useful.

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    Re: Disease!!

    Quote Originally Posted by excollier View Post
    I guess I'll keep the partitions then. Just one thing, how do I edit Grub to select a default os so my wife doesn't have to navigate the minefield to get to LMDE that she has started to use.
    You edit the /etc/default/grub file and change the line

    Code:
    GRUB_DEFAULT=0
    To whatever number on the grub line the distro of choice is.
    Like a lot of linux stuff, 0=1.
    So line one is zero.
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    Re: Disease!!

    Won't work for me, tried it but to no avail. Not to worry.

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    Re: Disease!!

    An easy thing to set up is a custom grub menu.

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...tomGrub2Screen

    And just make the one she wants first.
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    Re: Disease!!

    Quote Originally Posted by excollier View Post
    Won't work for me, tried it but to no avail. Not to worry.
    You must run
    Code:
    sudo update-grub
    afterwards. That will make a new /boot/grub/grub.cfg file with your change included.

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    Re: Disease!!

    Tried it, simply refuses to work

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    Re: Disease!!

    Quote Originally Posted by excollier View Post
    Tried it, simply refuses to work
    Did you edit with superuser privileges
    Code:
    sudo nano /etc/default/grub
    And change
    Code:
    GRUB_DEFAULT=0
    to something else for example
    Code:
    GRUB_DEFAULT=5
    and finally run
    Code:
    sudo update-grub

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    Re: Disease!!

    I'll try that, thanks. Do I have to do this from the last distro installed - the last distro to install and configure Grub? Which in my case is Debian Wheezy.
    Edit: Thanks sudodus, I followed your instructions, from a root terminal in Wheezy, and now Grub opens at LMDE as default, and timeout upped from 5 to 10 seconds.
    And thanks to all others that offered help too, I have picked up a few other useful tips for future reference.
    Last edited by excollier; May 28th, 2013 at 09:37 AM.

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    Re: Disease!!

    Quote Originally Posted by excollier View Post
    Please help me. I am an incurable distro hopper since trying linux for the first time last October.
    I use, primarily, a computer with 5 distros on it, (LMDE Cinnamon, #!, Linux Lite, Ubuntu Precise and Debian Wheezy) plus another computer with Vista / Linux Mint 13 KDE on it.
    So I have most of the desktops covered, and I really like all of them in their own way, particularly LMDE and #!.
    I really need to whittle it down to a triple boot at most, so which would you choose to go along with the top two mentioned above?
    Or do I keep the five partitions for tinkering with random distros?
    Distro hopping is a time consuming disease.
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    Re: Disease!!

    I have Linux Lite which is XFCE, Ubuntu based, very good it is too.
    Re-cap: LMDE (Cinnamon) #! ( Open Box) Linux Lite (XFCE) Ubuntu (Unity) and Debian 7 (Gnome Classic and KDE).
    So five distros and six DEs altogether, way too much choice, as if that were a problem, but I tend to favour LMDE and #!
    Last edited by excollier; May 29th, 2013 at 09:50 AM.

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