Question about dual-booting two versions of RedHat
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
teg at pvv.org
Thu Oct 16 08:54:38 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:02, Terry R Linhardt wrote:
> I have a large disk drive with ample space. I've decided I would like to
> install two versions of RedHat. One would be a "production" version, the
> other a "test" version.
>
> The documentation I've seen talks about Linux co-existing in a dual boot
> with some version of Windows.
>
> I've installed the "first" version of Linux in the first 25 GB of disk
> space. Do I install the "2nd" version in a similar manner?...that is,
> using a custom install and then selecting the unused portion of the
> drive to install the 2nd version? GRUB will see the two installs and
> allow me to select which one to boot?
Just choose "advanced options" when configuring the bootloader and
select to install grub on a partition, not the MBR, on all but one of
the installations. Then just add those partitions to grub.conf the same
way you'd add a Windows partition.
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