Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater (amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk): > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 01:51:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > Do Debian 7 and Debian 8 (when it is to be released), and a bootloader > > such as GRUB, allow yet, for more than one version of Debian, to be > > installed on a system, and, to be selectable options for the > > bootloader? > > Should do: it would probably be a good idea to install Debian 7 first on > the first half of the disk, using the expert install, and then to install > Debian 8 separately on the second half of the disk. > > I'd be happy to attempt to do this to check for you, if requested.
No need to check; yes, this is routine. But I would refine that suggestion slightly. On my own disks I create four primary partitions, for two versions of Debian (each in between 20 and 32GB), a swap and the rest as /home. (Many other people are now using logical volume managers and suchlike.) Typically I will have a stable and a testing, partly for new features of important (to me) software (like lilypond), but also so that I can learn about the new features while early adopters are interested in/ discussing them. Grub also manages the (almost unused) windows disks that a couple of my computers contain. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150404000809.gc13...@alum.home