[olug] Two different distros on the same HD

Shawn L. Djernes shawn at djernes.org
Wed Jan 12 20:46:28 UTC 2005


That would actually not work very well.  Especially if you needed to load
kernel modules from that environment.  Also you have no init control from
within this secondary system so you would not be able to try services such
as apache2 or others from within.

Just my 2 cents
Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
Sean Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:55 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Two different distros on the same HD


You could also create another directory to hold your
other distro, and do something like this (your mileage
may vary):

mount -t proc none /mnt/other/proc
chroot /mnt/other /bin/bash
source /etc/profile

This would make the linux distro located in /mnt/other
the active root.  I do not know if this is what you
are looking for, but I hope it helps.

-=Sean Edwards=-



--- Tim OBrien <IrishMASMS at OLUG.ORG> wrote:

> <quote who="Don Kauffman">
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to be able to experiment and take my time
> transitioning between
> > two different distributions and I'd like to
> install both on the same
> > hard drive. So I'm looking for good documentation
> on setting up
> > partitioning for running two different
> distributions from the same hard
> > Drive. It seems to me this should be possible. The
> documentation I've
> > found seems to suggest that different Hard drives
> are the way to go.
> >
> > For example:
> >
>
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/2033238&from=rss
> >
>
> Don - agreed. In fact, when dual booting with WinDoz
> & *nix/BSD it is
> highly suggested you use two separate hard drives.
>
> Yes, you can use one drive partitioned for the two
> (or more) OSes - but
> the best fault redundant solution is to use two
> separate drives.
>
>
>
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