[olug] Two different distros on the same HD

[Bill Brush]

I use Partition Boot Manager (www.sadevelopment.com) to use multiple OS's
on one HD.  I think the most I've done with this utility was something like
5 or 6 different OS's.  The nice thing about it, is it stores itself on the
first cylinder of the HD and is therefore completely OS independent.  This
means that if OS foo gets foo-barred you can still boot and use the other
OS's on the HD.

The owner/operator/programmer is really committed to customer service too.
I had a problem it took us a couple weeks to fix and he custom made several
debug versions of the program for me to test.  As it turned out the problem
was not with the software at all, it was with the hardware, but he stuck
with me through the troubleshooting process despite the fact I bought it
several years ago.

Bill


olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 01/12/2005 12:41:49 PM:

> <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
> >