I a bit of a noob myself, but since noone else has replied I'll give it a go
I had two machines, one had KDE on it, and the other had Gnome. Now, I want
to put both
the hard drives in one machine. I have already recompiled the kernel for
the hard drive
that I want to install. But I did so by temporarily disconnecting the
existing hard
drive.
Now, I want to have both on-line, with an option to boot either of the
two. I have grub
installed at present.
Edit the menu.lst to include options for both kernels. Use the man pages to
help on this. You just need to tell grub to boot from a different 'root='
using hd1 instead of hd0. You could try reinstalling Grub (grub-install
<device> I think) which will probably do all the hard work for you. It did
for me with different installs (32 and 64 bit) on separate partitions.
my other question is how to mount various drives (root, home, usr etc...)
Because when
booting from one hdd, i would need only the home partition of the other
hdd. Any
suggestions how to do this..
edit your /etc/fstab/ as root (or use su/sudo) with you favourite text
editor. Insert an extra line for /dev/hdXY where X is the letter of the
'other' HDD and Y is the partition number for home on the other HDD. Use a
mount point like /otherhome but the rest of the details can be the same as
your /home information. Save and $mount /dev/hdXY. Repeat for the other
install when required.
HTH
Wackojacko
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