On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:10:44 -0500 Zhao Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Right now I'm having Red Hat Enterprise AS installed on my desktop > computer (which has only one hard drive). I'm wondering if I can also > put Fedora on it so that I can dual boot from either Red Hat Enterprise > AS or Fedora. > > I know that dual-boot system (Windows and Linux) is quite common, but > not sure about dual-boot of 2 linux systems. Would 2 hard drives make it > doable? Or 1 hard drive is enough (as long as I have at least 2 > partitions on it) Yes, you can have any number of operating systems to boot. I routinely have a system at work with RHEL 3 and RHEL 4 as dual boots. One issue that could cause some problems is your home directory. I've run into this issue when dual booting 2 different versions of the same os where the GUI saves its configuration in your home directory. On the system at work that I dual boot, we share our home directory between the 2 RHELs. Just make sure that the /boot and /boot/grub data is set up properly. At work, this is handled through Intel's EFI, but at home, I never create a separate /boot. While (or after) installing and OS, I then either edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf (menu.lst) to point to the other OS, or I use SuSE's YaST. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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