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Re: is it possible to have more than one distro on a m/c?




On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, M K Saravanan wrote:
> is it possible to load another version of linux in a separate partition
> for testing purpose? any clues will be a great help.

yes, it is not very difficult. there is more than one way to do it and
here is one. since you are using nt, i suppose that you have the nt loader
in the mbr - so at boot time, you get the nt loader prompt giving you the
choice of os's to load. you already have one linux choice - you just need
to add one more. this new one will have its own root and boot partition
setup - but that is all hidden since the nt loader uses only the single
block ripped out from the appropriate installation (bootsect.lnx or
whatever you called the file).

sriram

ps: i have not tried this, so i dont know if this will work. i expect it
to.

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