Installing Multiple Linux OSes

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:05, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 21:58 +0530, Prudhvi Krishna Surapaneni wrote:
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>>>then what will be the "/" partition on the second Linux OS
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>>It can be anything you choose as the physical partition.
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>>For those that do an install where you already have a partition
>>labeled /, the new one seems to get labeled /n  where n is 1,2,etc and
>>gets incremented for each new install.  
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>Note that the other disk has to be present during the 2nd install
>for this to work.  If you take a drive with a fedora installation
>from one machine and add it to a machine that already has one, it
>will be confused by finding identical labels and refuse to boot.
>You have to boot from a rescue CD and either change the labels
>or change grub and /etc/fstab to use partition names to recover.
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For that very same reason I tend to "hard code" partition numbers in 
grub rather than using the labels. To avoid grub confusion.
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