DUAL BOOT -- 6.10/7.04 Herd 4?

[Maurice Murphy]

Thanks JF,

I will be a patient chicken! I may not upgrade until the Linspire CNR 
bits have been added later this year.

Maurice

Jean-François Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know, _for sure_, whether it is possible to set up a dual
>> boot 6.10/7.04 Herd 4?
>>
>>     
> Yes it is possible to dual boot although I wouldn't recommend it at
> this stage. Feisty is in developement right now and highly unstable.
> If it breaks you mostly get to keep the pieces until somebody fixes
> the bug and sometimes it can be real showstoppers. Unless you know
> your way around Ubuntu, I would highly recommend to keep using Edgy
> and upgrade instead to Feisty when it is released. Right now you are
> currently using alpha level software and universe has just begun it's
> final freezing phase (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleaseSchedule).
>
>   
>> I really don't want to have to do another re-install 6.10 all over again!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Maurice
>>     
>
> Take no offense in this but if you didn't know how to make your edgy
> partition booting again after installing feisty you are better off
> running edgy. If you really want to test Feisty you should use a spare
> machine not a production one. Also be prepared to have a bumpy ride if
> you do so.
>
> You have been kindly warned ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> JF
>
>   

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