Installing FC3 alongside another distro
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 21:00:45 UTC 2004
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:06:56 -0500, Andy Elvey
<andy.elvey at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi everyone -
> I'm a first-timer here and have a question about installing FC3
> alongside another distro.
> At the moment, I'm running Mepis Linux, and I'm keen to install FC3 as
> well.
>
> What I'm wondering is - if I try to install FC3, will it overwrite
> the current bootloader, or will the FC3 bootloader just "append" itself
> to what's already there? ( I believe Mepis uses the Grub bootloader).
> At the moment, I have Grub in the master boot-record. So, if I put
> FC3's bootloader elsewhere, will it still be possible for me to access
> both distros?
>
> Very many thanks for your time and comments!
> - Andy
>
Yes, it will. Save a copy of grub.conf to a floppy or another
accessible media. After installing FC3 insert the Mepis data into
FC3's grub.conf. Comment out "hiddenmenu" line to see all boot
choices.
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