Question about dual-booting two versions of RedHat

[John Mizell]

IT is easy enough to do. First do not install grub on the second install because you will only want one grub to control both installs. You will just need to put in the grub.conf the entry for the other install. create at a min two other partitions / and /boot. You will share the swap partition you already have between the two installs. If you wanted you could put more that two installs by following the same steps.

Thanx,
John Mizell

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry R Linhardt <linhardt at swbell.net>
Sent: Oct 15, 2003 9:02 AM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Question about dual-booting two versions of RedHat

I have a large disk drive with ample space. I've decided I would like to
install two versions of RedHat. One would be a "production" version, the
other a "test" version. 

The documentation I've seen talks about Linux co-existing in a dual boot
with some version of Windows.

I've installed the "first" version of Linux in the first 25 GB of disk
space. Do I install the "2nd" version in a similar manner?...that is,
using a custom install and then selecting the unused portion of the
drive to install the 2nd version? GRUB will see the two installs and
allow me to select which one to boot?

In a sense, this all seems fairly easy...is it pretty straight-forward?

By-the-way, initial impressions of the latest Beta are quite favorable.
That is, the overall interface is quite nice!

Thanks...Terry
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Terry R Linhardt <linhardt at swbell.net>


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