Installing Ubuntu alongside Fedora 8 - issues?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:23:22AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote:
>    On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Chris G <[1]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.?
> 
>    Here's a guide that can help:
>    [4]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux
> 
That tells me all about how Ubuntu differs from other distributions
once it's installed, but it doesn't address my question at all.

I want to know if I can dual boot Fedora and Ubuntu and whether there
are any quirks/gotchas if I try it.

-- 
Chris Green