CentOS on home machine HD

[Emmanuel Noobadmin]

On 2/7/14, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
> I've not experimented with server systems for many many  years so would
> like to understand a few points.
>
> On my home machine I have 2 hard drives one has 2 partitions, Ubuntu on
> the first and Fedora which I use most on the second partition.
> the pc boots through the Ubuntu grub.
>
> I have Fedora 16 on the second drive but don't use it.
> If I install CentOS on that Fedora hard drive with the first drive
> unplugged it should be a fresh install.
> Questions:
> When I switch on the first hard drive and cold boot, I can choose on
> bios boot between the centos and nix drives, Centos should not know of
> the other's existence is this correct.
> As a server, the Centos drive would permit access to 3 ip addresses.
> It will have LAMP stack, latest Ruby and Rails and Drupal 7 for development.
> Is it possible, while the pc is switched on during the day to use the
> CentOS as a server for development without affecting or accessing my
> working Linux installations?

I assume you are only using the CentOS installation for
development/testing, why not virtualize it? That way you don't have to
worry about it affecting your existing daily use OS.