Re: Multiboot

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:40 -0600
> Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
>
> > Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote:
> > > I am learning Debian and I was wondering if it possible to install
> > > two instances of Debian on the same machine. One as the production
> > > workstation for the daily work, and the other for experimentation,
> > > testing software, add/remove apps, etc. I can then boot into the
> > > partition that I like based on the task at hand. Thanks.
> > At last count I ran 14 Debian instances in 14 partitions.
> > Just create a partition and install. Then with Grub or Lilo select
> > the one you want to boot.
>
>    I am curious - where do you have Grub installed ? How do you
> maintain the menus? I have two partitions and two installations and
> everytime a kernel gets updated in one or the other it's chaos.

I wrote a program to keep track of what's where:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/e46065d5-2182-4d4f-8ca0-96245460e4f4/do_test_gpc_11102007

It uses fdisk to check all the partitions and then displays

1 partition devices
2 disk models+kernek versions
3 partition sizes
4 date last used
5 mount count

As you see hda10 where home is, is due for an fscheck.

Hugo