I do something similar. I have 4 "root" partitions. I install into them in round robin fashion. So at this point I have Ubuntu edgy on root1, 7.10 on root2, 8.04 on root3, and 9.04 on root4. I can boot into any of them.
There are complications. When you login with a newer distribution kde and gnome update their dot files. Unfortunately this sometimes breaks the older version so that you can no longer login with it. So I also have multiple home partitions. I have to use the appropriate home partition for the root partition. The majority of my home partition data doesn't have this problem. It goes into a separate partition which does not get updated. I do fresh installs each time, rather than letting the OS do the update. OS updates may be clean now but I had problems in the past and I prefer to stay with something I *know* works. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better. --- Mae West > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: >> I think you're going to have to grow the partition. >> dpkg accounts for the space savings when it deletes the old rev. > > My latest scheme is to create two 6G or 8G partitions for the OS and > leave /boot and /home in separate partitions. When there is a number OS > upgrade, I copy the OS from the current to the new partition, switch my > OS partition via grub (and /etc/fstab), and do the upgrade. This way, it > is easy to back out if something goes wrong. > > Of course, this is not possible if your disk is too small. > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
