[PlanetCCRMA] Installing two RH 9.0 Root Partitions?

[Barton Bosch]

Joe Hartley wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004 23:04:45 -0700
> Barton Bosch <bartonbosch@softhome.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been googling around for an hour trying to find more info 
>>on running two linux installations on one machine/hdd but I'm 
>>not having a lot of luck.  I want to have one "production" 
>>planet ccrma installation where I can actually get things done, 
>>a plain vanilla rh 9.0 installation to try to get Gimp 2.0 up 
>>and running, and possibly a third rh 9.0 or ccrma installation 
>>to tinker with.
> 
> 
> I think what you're trying to do is set up a machine that can boot
> from multiple partitions*.  Check this out...
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html

That faq is geared more toward multibooting two or three M$ 
partitions in addition to one Linux partition, but it does have 
some good info on GRUB.  Thanks for the pointer.  The GRUB info 
page contains a good deal of useful documentation as well.


> I have 3-4 partitions that I can boot from, which means I can go and
> try Fedora and continue to shake my head and go back to the RH9/Planet
> environment that just works.  The only standard partition I'll mount 
> across installations is /home, the rest gets reloaded.

I decided to go with three bootable linux partitions using the 
same /home, /data and /swap partitions.  I hope I'm not speaking 
too soon, but it looks like it will just be a matter of editing 
/boot/grub/grub.conf to be able to boot into the second or third 
root partitions.

In any case making a grub boot floppy to experiment with looks 
like the way to go.


Thanks again,

Barton