Hi list,
I get news about new distributions every month or so. I'd like to take
a
look at those, to compare them with FC, but I only have one single
machine. Does anybody know if I can install another distributions
togheter with my FC2 and decide which one to run at boot time?
Yes - you certainly can. Make sure you don't nuke your fedora install though.
What I tend to do is tell the installer not to install boot loader etc.
Then I copy it's kernel to my /boot partition (you should have a /boot partition if you want to do this), and add it to grub manually.
I then from within Fedora mount the / of the new install, and edit the fstab file so it mounts /boot at /boot.
Then I chroot into the new install as use the groupadd and useradd commands to create user accounts with same gid/uid - delete anything in / home of the chroot, and edit the fstab once again to mount my /home there.
Works very well.
