[Glastonbury] Boot on the other Drive [was: Downgrading with apt-get]

[tim hall]

Thanks for this Andy,

Reconfiguring lilo looks well trivial.

On Thursday 30 October 2003 22:30, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Is it possible to do this with runlevels, say runlevel 2 runs the hda
> > Woody system and runlevel 5 runs hdb Demudi? Is this possible/desirable?
>
> Difficult: as an alternative, you _might_ be able to install
> testing/unstable in either a chroot or a User Mode Linux environment.  
> Not necessarily straightforward to set up: if you've two disks, then
> it's probably far easier to use both like this.  Obviously, if you're
> running off /dev/hdb, there's nothing to stop you manually mounting
> /dev/hda to get some files off, for example, or vice versa.

This can wait until (If ever) I get my head round the necessary concepts.

cheers

tim hall