At 9:51 PM -0400 7/20/06, Jim Cornette wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 7:25 PM -0400 7/20/06, Jim Cornette wrote: >> >>> It is probably possible to boot both installations from the same boot >>> partition and let the root filesystem be referenced to match the >>> particular installation. I think it would be a mess during updates to >>> the kernel though. >> >> I do that and have no trouble (FC3 on LogVol00, FC5 on LogVol02). OK, the >> FC5 installer did remove all my other kernels, but I'd made a backup so it >> was easily fixed. Yum updates don't seem to have any problem. >Thanks for pointing out that it is possible to use the same boot >partition between installs. I take it that when kernel rpms are removed >from one installation, they only remove the entry related to the same >version kernel. I think that is the case, but I have disabled the "installonlyn" yum plugin as I'd rather keep the old kernels as long as I have space. >Additionally, the rpm database from each install only >sees the kernels related to the installation and just carry on as if the >entries were not in the grub files. Yes. >Thinking about it, once you mentioned the possibility, dual >installations, using one /boot partition might not be that bad of an >arrangement. I assumed the programs were "higher level intelligence" and >assumed the program was more aware. >I have to stop giving programs too much human awareness and think in >bytes or read the source code. :-) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
