Dual boot fedora and fedora?

[James Wilkinson]

cjlesh wrote:
> Anyone here know how to dual boot fedora and fedora?

No problem. Just be careful to install to separate partitions. You'll
have to be slightly creative with grub: I'd recommend installing to the
root partition of the FC4t1 install (use the "advanced" options button
at that part of Anaconda). In the FC3 /boot/grub/grub.conf, put
something like this:
title Fedora Core 4 test 1
        rootnoverify (hd1,5)
        chainloader +1

> I'm trying to dual boot fedora 3 and fedora 4t1, and it just ain't
> working. It almost seems that 4t1 is using parts of 3. For example, I
> never added a user (4t1 doesn't run firstboot), but I can log in as a
> user I created under 3. I think there might be a problem with the
> naming convention used for the partitions. 

Sounds -- oh dear -- as though you might have upgraded FC3 to FC4t1.

You do have good backups, don't you?

> I'm interested in hearing from people who have done this or are doing
> it, not really interested in hearing from people who think they know
> how to do it but haven't done it. I'm not being snippy, but the theory
> on how to do it doesn't seem to apply where the rubber meets the road.

I've done this throughout the FC3 test series: I haven't played with
FC4t1 yet.

> BTW - this isn't a cross post, I tried to get this on 'Test' list, but
> it's moderated, so I don't think it went through.

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James.

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