Dual boot strategy

[Timothy Payne]

If you can spare the $65 or so for a 40 GB drive I set up windows on a
separate drive with the Fedora drive unplugged.  That way windows thinks
it's the only operating system in the world.  Then I put this into my
/etc/grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title win98
	map (hd0) (hd1)
	map (hd1) (hd0)
	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

If windows got a report card it would say "Dose not play well with
others, and needs help in social skills"

Tim...


On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:37, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> I've been running FC1 since June. It's been a good experience, and I've 
> decided to install FC3 when it is released next month. Being somewhat chicken 
> hearted, my thought is that it would be best to set up a dual boot FC1-FC3 
> system that could be easily modified as future releases occur. My plan is to 
> partition a 40 gb drive so that both the tried-and-true (FCn) and the 
> latest-and-greatest (FCn+1) are available. Six months later, FCn would be 
> replaced by FCn+2. Rinse and repeat.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> 1. There were several threads in the archives concerning dual booting two 
> versions of Fedora; my inclination is to use the method given in this post by 
> Jim Cornette last May:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=108545448826891&w=2
> Any second thoughts, Jim?
> 
> 2. About partitioning: What would be the downside of setting up a separate 
> /home partition that can be accessed by either version? My thought is 
> something like 10 gb for /home, 1 gb /swap, 100 mb for each /boot, and 12 gb 
> for each /.
> 
> This is a simple single user home based system whose usage is largely surfing, 
> email, and some Open Office stuff. No servers, no development, and no 
> Windows. My next task is to upgrade from dialup to cable access, and then 
> setting up a simple home network with my wife's Mandrake 9.1 PC; that should 
> be accomplished prior to the release of FC3.
> 
> -- cmg