On 12/28/05, Zhao Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now I'm having Red Hat Enterprise AS installed on my desktop > computer (which has only one hard drive). I'm wondering if I can also > put Fedora on it so that I can dual boot from either Red Hat Enterprise > AS or Fedora.
To amplify and expand on what has already been posted: Yes, you can do this. The general approach is to have at least one partition for each installation. You can optionally share some partitions (/home and swap being the most popular) between both installations as well. There is no need to use multiple disks, but you can go that route if you so choose. From the standpoint of dual-booting, it does not matter whether these various partitions are on one disk or many disks. Adding a new disk does eliminate the need to resize existing partitions, which may be appealing. The GRUB boot loader (which I assume you are using) can handle multiple installations, disks, partitions, and other complexities just fine. So you can have your RHEL boot files on one partition, your FC boot files on another, and GRUB can pick from either one. I'm not sure, but I think Anaconda (the Red Hat/Fedora installer) is smart enough to detect the existing installation and build a unified boot menu for you. One tricky bit might be kernel upgrades. When you install a new kernel package, normally the post-install script updates the grub.conf file for you. At least one of the two installations will likely need to be manually pointed at the proper grub.conf file for that to continue working. If you want further assistance, it would help if you posted a copy of your partition layout. The easiest way to do that is to run the command fdisk -l as "root" and post the output. Hope this helps! -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
