Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-24 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, IIRC fedora-review suggested to test packages on all sup- ported Fedora releases. So, with a larger hard disk, I want to install Fedora 19, 20 (soon) and Rawhide and throw in (recent) Debian and Ubuntu as well. As my notebook doesn't support VMs, I'm interested in best practices for partitio

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 06:33 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > More contested seems to be the multi-boot setup. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 has a > myriad of opinions on how it should be set up; > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jlaska/Multiple_OS_Bootloader_Guide > sugges

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-24 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 11/25/2013 07:58 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 06:33 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: More contested seems to be the multi-boot setup. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 has a myriad of opinions on how it should be set up; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jl

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:33:03 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > So what are Fedora developers /actually/ using? Creating a > separate GRUB partition and "chainloader"/"configfile"? Chainloading (via 40_custom) is what I'm still doing with GRUB2, and it works with different bootloaders, too (unlike

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-25 Thread Pete Travis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/2013 11:33 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC fedora-review suggested to test packages on all sup- > ported Fedora releases. So, with a larger hard disk, I want > to install Fedora 19, 20 (soon) and Rawhide and throw in > (recent) Deb

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-25 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:28:59AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > Enough people have asked this sort of question that Chris Roberts and I > started hacking on a Guide to address it. Suggestions, criticisms, or > contributions are equally welcome. > > [1] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/mult

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-25 Thread Richard Hughes
On 25 November 2013 06:58, Adam Williamson wrote: > Personally, I use VMs. I think the majority of developers do this. I have f19, f20, and rawhide VMs with multiple versions of the images I use nearly every day. For rawhide, it's a huge win to be able to go back to a working version without a fu

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:27:34PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:28:59AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > > > Enough people have asked this sort of question that Chris Roberts and I > > started hacking on a Guide to address it. Suggestions, criticisms, or > > contributions a

Re: Best practice for multiple version/OS boot?

2013-11-27 Thread poma
On 25.11.2013 17:35, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 25 November 2013 06:58, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Personally, I use VMs. > > I think the majority of developers do this. I have f19, f20, and > rawhide VMs with multiple versions of the images I use nearly every > day. For rawhide, it's a huge win t