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kilgoretrout · 10-30-2003, 11:53 AM

If you have the room on your hard drive(3 to 5 GB should be enough), make a separate partition for 7.2 on your drive and install rh 7.2 there and keep rh 9. During the 7.2 install elect not to install a boot loader and you'll be prompted to make a boot floppy for it. This is necessary; if you let 7.2 install a boot loader, it will overwrite the existing rh 9 boot loader and will not create a boot entry for it. Unless you've made a boot floppy for rh 9 you won't be able to boot into it.
Following the above, you can boot into 7.2 with the boot floppy or edit your rh 9 grub config file to create a boot entry for 7.2.
Note, you can use the same swap partition for rh 9 and rh 7.2. No need to make a separate one.

10-30-2003, 11:53 AM	#9
kilgoretrout Member (11 bit) Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,524	If you have the room on your hard drive(3 to 5 GB should be enough), make a separate partition for 7.2 on your drive and install rh 7.2 there and keep rh 9. During the 7.2 install elect not to install a boot loader and you'll be prompted to make a boot floppy for it. This is necessary; if you let 7.2 install a boot loader, it will overwrite the existing rh 9 boot loader and will not create a boot entry for it. Unless you've made a boot floppy for rh 9 you won't be able to boot into it. Following the above, you can boot into 7.2 with the boot floppy or edit your rh 9 grub config file to create a boot entry for 7.2. Note, you can use the same swap partition for rh 9 and rh 7.2. No need to make a separate one.