Gutsy on one partion/Hardy on another

[NoOp]

On 03/28/2008 06:00 PM, steve wrote:
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> NoOp wrote:
> | On 03/27/2008 09:36 PM, NoOp wrote:
> |> What is the easiest way to install Hardy on a separate partion?
> |>
> |> Here is the situation:
> |>
> |> A friend has Gutsy installed on sdb1 (swap on sdb5), so he'd created a
> |> second partition (sdb3, swap on sdb6) and installed Hardy Alpha 6 into
> |> sdb3. Unfortunately he ended up with a Busybox intramfs on boot. So
> |> after a couple of days of emails I finally got his grub & fstab back to
> |> normal (it was pointing to sdb3) by putting grub on sda1 (his Windows
> |> drive) and pointing root back to his gutsy sdb1:
> |>
> |> sudo grub
> |> grub> root (hd1,0)
> |> grub> setup (hd0)
> |> grub> quit
> |> Reboot (to hard drive).
> |>
> |> All is well again with Gutsy, but now he'd like to try again; this time
> |> with Hardy Beta on sdb3. I'm reluctant to have him just go ahead and try
> |> the install (alternate CD) again without some guidance from the list.
> |> So, any advise on how to go about this without having to redo grub &
> |> fstab edits again in case of failure/Busybox?
> |>
> |
> | Bump.
> |
> | Nobody has 7.10 (or Feisty) on one partition and 8.04 (or Gutsy) on
> | another on the same drive?
> |
> | Even pointers to RTFM are appreciated.
> |
> |
> 
> why dont you just run the update manager and upgrade gutsy to hardy?
> ive been using hardy for about a month with no problems whatsoever.

Yes, I've upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy on two machines with minimal
difficulty as well. But that was not the question. The question is how
to effectively install two Ubuntu distro's on two partitions on the same
drive.

I think that if this can be resolved, then it will also be easier to
test future versions on a second partition without having to resort to a
VM scenario.