Dual-Booting Linux

Merv Curley mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 29 01:29:29 UTC 2003


On August 28, 2003 12:47 pm, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:37, Madison Kelly wrote:
> >    I have setup dual-boot windows/linux machines many time but now I
> > want to dual/triple boot linux distros (Redhat, Mandrake, Debian) on
> > one machine. How do I avoid conflicts with things like /root, /ver,
> > etc... Has anyone one this before? Thank you!!
>
Sure,   you just create a partition for each distro.  Linux now can safely 
partition drives I'm told or use the old Windows pgm  Partition Magic.

Any Linux install will install Grub or Lilo which have a menu to select 
which partition to boot.

Merv

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