On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:18:50PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > Sure. You can dual-boot Debian Sarge and Debian Etch just as easy as you > can dual boot Debian Sarge with Win XP (or Fedora, or BSD, or whatever > else you'd like). I've run tri-boot systems before. As long as you set > them up fully independent of each other, and always configure GRUB from > just one of them, you shouldn't have any issues. > > The only major disadvantages are that you'd have to reboot to switch > between systems, and you could be wasting disk space by chopping your disk > up suboptimally. can you chroot your way into a different distro? I suppose you'd be running the same kernel, but I suspect that might not be much of a problem. maybe a backport of a more recent kernel for sarge and then chroot into etch or sid? A > > If you wanted to share stuff between them, that could get messy. Even > sharing your home partition could cause issues with the saved data for > different versions of some programs, depending on what it is you run. > > -- > Larry Garfield > > On Thu, April 13, 2006 4:54 pm, Redefined Horizons said: > > I ran into some trouble when I was trying to install the Debian packages > > for > > Mono. Turns out the stable packages for Sarge at backports.org required a > > newer version of libc6 and libglib, which meant removing about 3/4 of the > > other packages on my system. > > > > I need a stable Debian OS for certain applications, but I would also like > > to > > work with some more recent versions of software for some development > > projects. Is it possible to run the stable and testing versions of Debian > > on > > the same hard drive, but in different partitions? What would be the > > disadvantages of that system? Where can I find some more information about > > how to set that type of system up? (I'm currently dual-booting Debian with > > MS Windows XP.) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Scott Huey > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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