Multiple installations

[Keith Mastin]

> When it comes to PC hardware, I really don't, therefore I have what's
> probably a ridiculous question.
>
> I set up a machine with a single hard drive partitioned to dual-boot
> between NT Workstation and SuSE Linux.  I use my current Linux
> installation for all kinds of volatile stuff: trying out various SW
> packages, my own development projects....  I would like to have a
> second, bootable Linux environment on that computer that would stay
> relatively clean as a "production" server where I could demo stuff to
> clients without wondering what my latest downloads mangled.
>
> I've done this on Macs where it's as simple as adding another drive,
> installing a second copy of the system, and choosing which
> volume/partition to boot from.  With PCs, however, I've heard horror
> stories from others about failing to boot because of number, location,
> or size of a given partition...or master vs. slave drives.  Are there
> warnings/guidelines for what I want to do?  (It sounds like it should
> be a "just do it", but others' experiences make me nervous.)

Just do it. If there are problems they are workable. I would trust
linux/xBSD for this long before I would trust M$. You can share
filesystems between the installations. Windoh$ wants to be on the first
filesystem of the primary drive, linux really has no limitations in
comparison.



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