installing Fedora test on a spare drive

Scott Seagroves scott at ucolick.org
Tue Oct 7 21:00:53 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 07:53, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
<snip>
> title Test release
>         root (hd1,0)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> The only minor inconvenience is that, in order to boot Fedora Core, I
> have to go through two boot loaders, but with appropriate defaults, I
> can just turn the machine on and go have some coffee :-)  The
> advantage is the zero maintenance cost: upgrades, installs, etc, don't
> require me to go modifying the stable boot loader configuration in
> any way.

Assuming your "stable" release is something like RH9, do you have
separate "home" directories for the two releases, or how do you deal
with the potential differences in your dotfiles and other configurations
across releases?

just curious,
Scott





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