RE: Grub on Windowx? Grub over network

[Leslie Rhorer]

> I am currently preparing the machines to run in our Computer Science
> lab.
> 
> I want the machines to be able to boot:
> 
> 1) Windows
> 
> 2) Ubuntu (installed by me)
> 
> 3) Some debian for some specific project
> 
> 4) Some other Ubuntu installed by the students
> 
> The part 4 will/may come later.
> 
> Now I would like for 2 and 3 to boot from the network (over NFS), is
> that possible?
> 
> But that would mean, ultimatly, that I have no partition for 2 and 3,
> so that Grub configuation files would have to be in my Windows
> partition. Is that possible?

        Yes, but there's another alternative.  You could put GRUB on its own
partition.  In fact, I think I might recommend it.