Installing Ubuntu alongside Fedora 8 - issues?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:04:35AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >   
>     Geeze, someone who has used Fedora 7 and 8 should know that ANY 
> Linux that is started by Grub will work along side any other Linux. Load 
> Ubuntu from the Live CD and it will make a Grub that boots both Ubuntu 
> and all your other Linux systems.
> 
OK, thanks, I thought it was probably so but I wanted to be sure.

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Chris Green