[SC.LUG] Dual Boot Machines

Ian Molton sc at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Aug 13 13:53:00 2003


On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:44:48 +0100
Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> You can boot as many systems as you want, subject to the limitations
> of your boot loader.  As others have written, installing a number of
> independent Linux installations on the same disk usually requires
> you to use a less automatic install procedure: you've got to go in
> by hand and create separate partitions for each distro, and specify
> the installation in such a way that they don't overwrite each other.

Oh yeah... unless you are using software suspend, by the way, you can
use one swap partition for ALL the linux installations - they can share
it.

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