Re: How to dual boot Suse and Slackware.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:40:24 -0400, JohnF <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wouldn't some automatic incremental update just
walk all over these kinds of changes (whenever a
modified script was affected by the update)?

Yes. There are some ways of dealing with this though. The best option is
to never modify a script that may be overwritten by an update. That requires
that you only alter the configuration using things like rc.local, or other
"hooks", intended for system customization. An alternative is to setup
and run a script after each update, to see if any of your customized scripts
is being overwritten, and have it either re-apply your changes, or notify
you, to have you manually re-apply your changes.

Back to the problem of dual booting. If you are using grub and ext3 for
the root filesystem, one possible problem, is the change in the default
inode size from 128b to 256b. Some distributions like Mandriva 2008.1
have a patched version of grub, that can handle the change. Other/older
versions of grub won't work. In this case you must use the patched
version of grub. My preference is to use a boot manager such as GAG
http://gag.sourceforge.net/ and install each distributions boot loader
(lilo or grub) in the root filesystem, for that distro. That way problems
or changes with one distro do not effect any other distro.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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