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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