dual booting

[dishawjp]

Hi All!

I set up my first "dual boot" machine last night. I have a Red Hat 8/Red Hat 9 machine. I know that for most of you that's no significant achievement, but it's a first for me. I've done several Red Hat only installs with no problems and wanted to give one of Voidmain's suggestions a try; having dual hard drives and doing upgrades on alternate hard drives. In other words, RH 8 on one, RH 9 on the other for now and when the next version comes out, overwrite the older version.

The install went very well except for one thing. I must have messed up the grub part of the install and until I played aroung with the /boot/grub/grub.conf files I was unable to boot to RH8. But it's up and running and dual booting now!

All I have to do in get the NVidia drivers installed, put apt-get and Synaptic on, set up tripwire, add some ipchains rules, download and install some apps that I like (gkrellm and etc), and I'll be fully functional. I do have one question though: If I set up the RedHat up2date for my RH9 install, will I lose access to it for my RH 8 install? Their "demo" service states that you're only allowed one system for free. I did buy this copy of RH9; I paid $50 for it at the local CompUSA ( I know I paid too much, but it was an impulse purchase), and I feel as if I should have access to the service. Any thoughts?

Jim

[Void Main]

Regarding the "up2date" thing my guess would be yes, you could only use it on one of the two installs, but I would only be guessing as I have never used it. I use "apt-get dist-upgrade" which does the same thing and I can run it on as many machines as I want at no charge and without giving up an email address.

[dishawjp]

Thanks again Voidmain!

The apt-get dist-upgrade is even easier than the up2date. I won't get the e-mail notices of update availability, but running the apt utility is even easier than the "pointy-clicky" up2date thing. And if I ever did want the point and click method, I guess there's always synaptic!

Jim

[Void Main]

I just wrote a script to run the dist-upgrad from cron every night. Here's the script if you want it:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/dist-upgrade