On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:18:50PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > Sure. You can dual-boot Debian Sarge and Debian Etch just as easy as you > can dual boot Debian Sarge with Win XP (or Fedora, or BSD, or whatever > else you'd like). I've run tri-boot systems before. As long as you set > them up fully independent of each other, and always configure GRUB from > just one of them, you shouldn't have any issues. > > The only major disadvantages are that you'd have to reboot to switch > between systems, and you could be wasting disk space by chopping your disk > up suboptimally. > > If you wanted to share stuff between them, that could get messy. Even > sharing your home partition could cause issues with the saved data for > different versions of some programs, depending on what it is you run. > > -- > Larry Garfield > > On Thu, April 13, 2006 4:54 pm, Redefined Horizons said: > > I ran into some trouble when I was trying to install the Debian packages > > for > > Mono. Turns out the stable packages for Sarge at backports.org required a > > newer version of libc6 and libglib, which meant removing about 3/4 of the > > other packages on my system. > > > > I need a stable Debian OS for certain applications, but I would also like > > to > > work with some more recent versions of software for some development > > projects. Is it possible to run the stable and testing versions of Debian > > on > > the same hard drive, but in different partitions? What would be the > > disadvantages of that system? Where can I find some more information about > > how to set that type of system up? (I'm currently dual-booting Debian with > > MS Windows XP.) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Scott Huey > > Hi
why would you want to tri boot and not having a simple chroot ? (you could also combine these two options and run your other bootable debian install also in a chroot, at least if the uids match...) and using dchroot every user can run apps in the chroot, and with this script it is also possible to simply create links to the programms from outside the chroot and using bind mounts you can share the data between chroot and outside.. i even ran a daemon once, but then you have to manually create the startup links by hand... i use such a setup currently to run i396 aps on my amd64 debian install yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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