On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 09:30 +0100, A. Lanza wrote: > 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? Or, will > I need a different machine to do it? Yes - grub does this nicely, although anaconda could do a better job of helping you do it. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124725 Providing multiple ~100MB primary partitions for /boot near the beginning of the disk, or disks, for each distro helps. Can even share /boot between FC2 and FC3 if you upgrade e2fsprogs on FC2 to handle new ext3 features from FC3 but this is a bit tricky. Sample /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf modified by Phil Schaffner # # 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 (hd2,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hde7 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title Fedora Core 3 rc5 (2.6.9-1.649) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.649 ro root=LABEL=/1 initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.649.img title Fedora Core 3 Quiet (2.6.9-1.649) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.649 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.649.img title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.8-1.521.desktop.6) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521.desktop.6 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.desktop.6.img title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.8-1.521) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img title Fedora Core 2 (2.6.7-1.494.2.2) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.img title Win98 on hda2 rootnoverify (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 title WinXP on hde1 unhide (hd1,0) unhide (hd1,4) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1
