Dualbooting 7.04 with 7.10

[Vitaly Babiy]

yes it does.

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 16:14 -0600, cj wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > cj wrote:
> >   
> >> ive never dualbooted linux before, so i dont know how to do it. Is it
> >> like dualbooting windows or is it much different? and how do i do it? I
> >> plan on dualbooting my kubuntu 7.04 with kubuntu 7.10
> >>     
> >
> > Yes, it is like dualbooting linux + windows. I haven't used it for 7.04 + 
> > 7.10 myself, only for 6.06 + 7.04. My advice: Use a separate partition 
> > for 7.10, the swap partition can be used for both installations. During 
> > the installation of 7.10 the swap partition will be reformatted. 
> > Therefore you should uodate your 7.04 fstab if it has UUIDs in use. 
> > Furthermore, I think it is better not to use a common /home partition. 
> > The format of some configuration files might change -- then you might 
> > have trouble when using 7.04 again.
> >
> >
> > Nils
> >
> >   
> in previous versions of ubuntu, you could insert the install CD for the 
> new release and ubuntu would detect a newer release and upgrade, this is 
> going to sound like a  extremely dumb question, but does ubuntu still do 
> that?
> 
> --cj
>