Re: Triple boot machine possible?

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Peter wrote:

>Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen um 10:04:
>> My machines has got 2 disks
>>   disk1 : sda1 (win2000 ntnfs partion)
>>           sda2 (vfat partion)
>> 	  free-space
>>   disk2 : sda1 (core 1 /boot)
>>           sda2 (core 1 /)
>> 	  sda3 (core 1 /home)
>> How can I install FC3-test1 on the free-space of disk1 in such a way that I
>> can select at boot-time between
>>   1) windows2000
>>   2) Fedora core 1
>>   3) Fedora core 3 test1
>
>You may install FC3t1 as usual. Boot from the CD, select the free space
>for / your sda1 on disk 2 (it should read sdb1?) for /boot and your core

You are right sdb1 (too quick with copy/paste)

>1 home on sdb3 into /mnt/home so it will not be affected by test 1
>quirks (or initially you should omit it and add it later). Before
>starting the installation, you should save your /boot/grub/grub.conf
>file! Unfortunately anaconda does not use an existing grub.conf. It will
>detect it and should make a backup, but it will not use the information
>inside the file. It will make a new grub.conf file, containing your
>windows partition and your newly installed test 1. It will "forget" your
>current Core 1. You have to add the corresponding lines from the backup
>file manually.
 hmm... so only grub.conf is changed in /boot
 In that case I'll also need some bootable CD to get the "old"
/boot/grub/grub.conf back when FC3t1 fails to boot.

          Jouk



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