Installing Ubuntu alongside Fedora 8 - issues?

[Victor Padro]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I run Linux as my main home desktop system, for many years it was
> Slackware, then for the last couple of years it has been Fedora (7
> then 8).
>
> I've been running Ubuntu Server on my 'NAS' system which lives in my
> garage and having that has overcome the reasons I didn't move to
> Ubuntu on my main system.
>
> So.................
>
> If I want to do a slow migration from Fedora 8 to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS are
> there any major issues I should be aware of?  I have masses of disk
> space and (for example) when I migrated from F7 to F8 I just did a new
> install of F8 which dual booted with F7 and I migrated my
> customisations across.  /home is on its own partition.
>
> Can I do the same with Ubuntu?  I.e. can I install Ubuntu on its own
> partition and leave F8 intact and then boot one or the other as
> required until I'm happy with the new Ubuntu installation?  Will
> Ubuntu and Fedora 'co-operate' with how they see Grub, /boot, etc.?
>
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Here's a guide that can help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux

Cheers,

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