partition tip ?

[Andrew Farris]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:22:09PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote:
>>> It's possible to have dual boot, like Fedora + Windows.  Is it not possible
>>> to  have a  dual  boot,  like  FC6 and F8 ?
>> Yes you can do that, but there are a few complications.  Fedora by default 
>> labels the partitions in a simple way (LABEL=/, LABEL=/home) and mounts 
>> these by label.
> 
> Anaconda is smart enough to create labels which do not conflict with
> already existing ones.  At least this was the case when I was adding
> new installations on the same machine.  I could redo later these
> labels to be consistent across a particular installation but this is
> only for my own sanity.  I may have five or six distros, between
> Fedora and CentOS and x86_64 and i386, on my test box at a given
> moment.

I was not aware anaconda was now doing this correctly, that certainly would be 
an improvement over the last time I tried multiple physical installations.

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