Dual Boot Mandrake and RedHat

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Mon Oct 14 16:29:27 CDT 2002


Either GRUB (my favorite) or LILO should be able to boot multiple Linux
partitions just fine.  The installer should leave your Red Hat partition
untouched unless you tell it otherwise.

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Moss, Jon wrote:

> Okay, call me really strange, but I have this idea.  :)  Here goes: 
> 
> I have a Deskpro EN 866 that has two partitions - an NT 4 partition
> (inhabiting the master boot record) 10 GB in size.  The other 10 GB of this
> drive is RedHat Linux 7.3. 
> 
> Is it feasible to scrap the NT 4 partition and install Mandrake 9 in it's
> place?  leaving RedHat 7.3 behind?  
> 
> If so, can I then dual boot to either Mandrake 9 or RedHat 7.3 (or 8.0 if I
> upgrade it)? 
> 
> Thanks for any ideas or suggestions. 
> 
> Jon Moss
> 




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