Question about dual-booting two versions of RedHat
Gene C.
czar at czarc.net
Wed Oct 15 14:54:58 UTC 2003
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:02, Terry R Linhardt wrote:
> 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.
I will typically have five different linux systems defined on my test system
(a boot selector and emergency recovery system, a "current" production
system, and three "test" systems such as taroon, fedora 0.94, fedora 0.95).
I install a minimal system into a small partition (small has grown to almost
700M for RHL9, etc.). Grub is installed in the MBR. The other systems
install grub into the / or /boot partition itself (selectable from the "boot
advanced" panel) and NOT the MBR.
Then, either when I install the minimal system or after installation by
editing /boot/grub/grub.conf, I add definitions to boot the other partitions.
Such a definition looks like:
title testing on hdc1 (Fedora test2)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
chainloader +1
If I have a small system such as a laptop with disk space for only two system
partitions, I install grub for the "production" system in the MBR and install
the "test" partition into the partition itself with a pointer as above in the
production system.
I have found that it is better to always install (not do an upgrade) as it is
much, much cleaner with fewer problems. Using these multiple systems, I keep
from destroying a "working" system to install a new version. Data partitions
such as /home are in separate partitions.
--
Gene
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