Dual boot Fedora Core with another copy of Fedora Core

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:56:13 -0600, Shashank Bhide <bhides at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I installed a copy of Fedora core 3 on my laptop- Sony pcg-grv550
> without any problems. I was wondering, could I install another copy of
> Fedora on the same laptop?
Yes.

> I have vacant partition of the hard-drive, aroud 12GB. I would have
> to force the /boot to be primary when I use Diskdruid right? and then
> have to create the other filesystems as extended (/, swap etc).
Nope.

>    When I install the second copy, should I install the boot loader on
> the MBR or on the first sector of the /boot hard-drive (/dev/hda3)?
No. No. Do not install a bootloader, use the current copy of grub. 
See below for an extract of my grub.conf:

title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.737_FC3)
        root (hd2,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=795 noprobe
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.737_FC3.img
title FC3 64bit
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/sdb1 vga=795 noprobe
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

I amended the second grub stanza so it would mimic an install in a
single partition. I did not need to create new swap as I already had
a swap partition.

N.Emile...
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