[TriLUG] Multiple versions of Linux

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: john at radiomind.com [mailto:john at radiomind.com]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:00 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Multiple versions of Linux


I am very interested in the multi distro setup discussed eariler on this
list and documented by Ed Hill here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/M
ulti-Distro-Dev.html

I haven't done it, but I definately like the idea.  I used to swap hard
drives in and out using IDE trays like these:
http://www.stayonline.com/catalog/drives/removeablestorage/index.asp

I had a main drive I normally worked on, and a couple 1G-3G older drives
to swap in to try things out with.


john

quotation from John Matthews <jvmatthe at math.duke.edu> [on 020325 13:49]:

> Yes, you can install several versions of Linux on the same box, and it
> is quite easy. My recent example is that I bootstrapped from source a
> Gentoo Linux install on my laptop (looooooooong compile) and then
> installed the latest Red Hat beta right alongside it.
> 
> /dev/hda1   /boot            64Mb
> /dev/hda2   swap            320Mb
> /dev/hda3   extended
> /dev/hda5   /home (shared) ~700Mb
> /dev/hda6   / (for Gentoo)  2.0Gb
> /dev/hda7   / (for Red Hat) 1.9Gb
> 
> I told the newer distribution (in this case, Red Hat) to install its
> files on /boot but don't overwrite the bootloader I had already
> installed (in this case grub from Gentoo). Then, after installing Red
> Hat, I rebooted into Gentoo and edited my menu.lst to include the new
> Red Hat kernel. After doing this, a reboot and I was right into my Red
> Hat install. Both distros are using a common /home structure, which
> could cause problems if I'm not careful, but luckily both have about the
> same version of GNOME and the same set of applications.
> 
> I've been quite pleased with the results so far.
> 
> Regards,
> matt
> 
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