was: Dual boot linices?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 21:26, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> First and foremost, you need disk space free.

While non-destructively repartitioning is possible with just a  
commandline, the GParted LiveCD sure makes it easy if you can reboot  
the machine:

   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
group_id=115843&package_id=125754

On Oct 21, 2008, at 21:29, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> Grub 3 or grub 2? I thought 2 was the pie-in-the-sky rewrite that  
> didn't actually suffice in many cases... At least, Fedora still  
> ships a heavily HEAVILY patched grub 0.9.7, which is actually  
> maintained in a public git tree now, and I believe used by at least  
> a few other distributions.

Yeah, that's the one. :)  Actually, I may have spoken with bad  
historical data; it looks like they're going to stabilize next month:

   http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-faq.en.html

though there are some big gotchas here still:

   http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html

If they succeed, it ought to be grand.

-Bill

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