dual boot feisty-gusty?

[Dennis Castanos]

thanks detail info Chris - dennis

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 07:18 +0100, Chris Malton wrote:
> Dennis Castanos wrote:
> > I would like to install beta gusty along with feisty.  Will gusty pick
> > up feisty +(windows)as a boot option?  if not, is there any
> > instructions on the internet on how to this?
> > Dennis
> > 
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> You will need two partitions, one for Feisty and its / or root folder, 
> and the other for Gutsy and its root folder.  You can have a shared 
> /home (but I wouldn't recommend it, since a lot of conf files are stored 
> in /home/$USER/.$APP where $USER is your username and $APP is the 
> program's name, and a lot of the apps have changed in Gutsy.
> 
> That said, I upgraded Feisty to Gutsy (beta) without adverse effects 
> last week, so it MAY be possible to keep /home the same for both.
> 
> However, no matter what you do, the folders /etc, /usr and /var MUST be 
> on a different partition for each of Gutsy and Feisty.
> 
> Example steps (with 500GB hard disk):
> 0) Examine disk partition table using gparted (or FDisk
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1       30117   241914771   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2           30118       60234   241914802+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sdb3           60235       60801     4554427+   5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5           60235       60801     4554396   82  Linux swap
> 
> 1) Repartition hard disk.
> 	a) sdb1 is the Linux root in the above example.
> 	b) Resize /dev/sdb1 so that there are at least 10GB of free space.
> 	c) Create a new partition in that free space and format it to ext3.
> 
> 2) Load up the Gutsy installer.
> 3) Step through the installer.
> 	a) Do *not* repartition anything, simply tell gutsy to use the new 
> partition mount at "/"
> 	b) Let gutsy install as normal (after selecting the right partition)
> 
> 4) Reconfigure GRUB.
> Since you just installed gutsy, it wiped out your grub config  from the 
> feisty install (but will have picked up Windows!).  You'll need to 
> re-add your kernels with correct paths to boot feisty. (Hint: Copy the 
> automagic kernel entries from your old /boot/grub/menu.lst to *outside* 
> the Automagic Kernel Entries section in your newly created 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> Is that enough info?
> 
> Chris
> 
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