Hi all, I noticed the new "alpha" level isos in the downloads and feel motivated to help testing it.
I obviously do not want to go over to alpha for my normal work, but would be interested if I can install it alongside my existing current release. That way I would be testing that it works on the exact hardware that I would eventually be running it on when it reaches production quality. Do I proceed as for the instructions for installing Qubes as a second boot option to Linux? If not, what would be different? What additional risks might I introduce by running a development version of Qubes on the same physical machine as the production version? Obviously I would not have any files/partitions shared apart from the EFI partition. Would it make sense to install it onto an EFI partition on a different internal disk? Would it be better for any reason to install it onto a USB drive? (my guess to both of these is no, because when the test system is running the production system would be on the host even if not mounted) My current production version is R4.0.3 and I will shortly be replacing it with R4.0.4. At the time of writing the current alpha is R4.1.0 but that my (or may not) change by the time I get around to installing it. I thought I would dual boot the new R4.0.4 with the existing R4.0.3, then once R4.0.4 is verified as working for me I would transfer the user level files and then overwrite the older production version with the alpha test version. Anyone who can think why that might be a bad idea please speak now or forever hold your peace (as they say in English weddings) I did a google search for "dual boot qubes versions site:qubes-os.org" but it only pointed me to info about dual booting with non-Qubes systems. Once successful, would ppl welcome my spending time adding a section to the dual boot online documentation? I would be happy to do so if just one person thinks it might be useful WArmly River~~ -- 9831*2^1441403+1 is prime, >400k digits -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAK3jUKovJGHW1m45D8_5c%2BJmLWV8RoDTQyzCdFRjQ%3DixRg_XRA%40mail.gmail.com.