Installing other Linux distributions togheter with FC2

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 9 09:05:22 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 08:30, A. Lanza wrote:
> I get news about new distributions every month or so. I'd like to take a
> look at those, to compare them with FC, but I only have one single
> machine. Does anybody know if I can install another distributions
> togheter with my FC2 and decide which one to run at boot time? Or, will
> I need a different machine to do it?

The procedure for doing this is very similar to that for dual-booting
with Windows. Decide which OS's bootloader is going to "own" the Master
Boot Record and then use that one to chain-load other OS' bootloaders
from the first sector of the partitions they are installed into.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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