If you can spare the $65 or so for a 40 GB drive I set up windows on a separate drive with the Fedora drive unplugged. That way windows thinks it's the only operating system in the world. Then I put this into my /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img title win98 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 If windows got a report card it would say "Dose not play well with others, and needs help in social skills" Tim... On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:37, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > I've been running FC1 since June. It's been a good experience, and I've > decided to install FC3 when it is released next month. Being somewhat chicken > hearted, my thought is that it would be best to set up a dual boot FC1-FC3 > system that could be easily modified as future releases occur. My plan is to > partition a 40 gb drive so that both the tried-and-true (FCn) and the > latest-and-greatest (FCn+1) are available. Six months later, FCn would be > replaced by FCn+2. Rinse and repeat. > > My questions: > > 1. There were several threads in the archives concerning dual booting two > versions of Fedora; my inclination is to use the method given in this post by > Jim Cornette last May: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=108545448826891&w=2 > Any second thoughts, Jim? > > 2. About partitioning: What would be the downside of setting up a separate > /home partition that can be accessed by either version? My thought is > something like 10 gb for /home, 1 gb /swap, 100 mb for each /boot, and 12 gb > for each /. > > This is a simple single user home based system whose usage is largely surfing, > email, and some Open Office stuff. No servers, no development, and no > Windows. My next task is to upgrade from dialup to cable access, and then > setting up a simple home network with my wife's Mandrake 9.1 PC; that should > be accomplished prior to the release of FC3. > > -- cmg
