02-06-2018, 03:38 AM
Thanks for the responses, Randomboy.
Yes, I know that PCLOS is not Ubuntu based. At the time it was installed, I liked the idea of a rolling release distro.
It is your second best option, replacing PCLOS with Linux Lite, that I prefer as an approach. I do not wish to have PCLOS remain installed. I will take your suggestion, and give Linux Lite a dry run from DVD; however, I suspect that performance when installed can differ greatly from performance when running from a DVD. Even the Puppy Linux variant I am currently running from DVD, Xenialpup, is sluggish when compared to the more robust and more resource demanding PCLOS which runs from the hard drive.
Thank you, too, Moltke.
The tool you are recommending, EasyBCD, looks like it can be useful once I know what I am doing. The forum postings you pointed me to with your link appear very complex to the uninitiated. I am hoping for somewhat simple and reasonably easy in switching Linux distros, while keeping XP in place. Maybe there is no simple approach to this, although turning my single boot XP into a dual boot with PCLOS was not all that difficult once I had the instructions I needed.
Would it help if I were to post what the current hard disk structure is – what the partitions are, and how they are used? If so, how can I find out this information? If using my Puppy Linux distro, run from a DVD, would be beneficial, that is available as a tool.
Yes, I know that PCLOS is not Ubuntu based. At the time it was installed, I liked the idea of a rolling release distro.
It is your second best option, replacing PCLOS with Linux Lite, that I prefer as an approach. I do not wish to have PCLOS remain installed. I will take your suggestion, and give Linux Lite a dry run from DVD; however, I suspect that performance when installed can differ greatly from performance when running from a DVD. Even the Puppy Linux variant I am currently running from DVD, Xenialpup, is sluggish when compared to the more robust and more resource demanding PCLOS which runs from the hard drive.
Thank you, too, Moltke.
The tool you are recommending, EasyBCD, looks like it can be useful once I know what I am doing. The forum postings you pointed me to with your link appear very complex to the uninitiated. I am hoping for somewhat simple and reasonably easy in switching Linux distros, while keeping XP in place. Maybe there is no simple approach to this, although turning my single boot XP into a dual boot with PCLOS was not all that difficult once I had the instructions I needed.
Would it help if I were to post what the current hard disk structure is – what the partitions are, and how they are used? If so, how can I find out this information? If using my Puppy Linux distro, run from a DVD, would be beneficial, that is available as a tool.