On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 20:28 +0100, jdd wrote:
Le 05/12/2011 16:55, Roger Oberholtzer a écrit :
I would like to install 12.1 on a spare partition in a rather quick manner
why do you bother really?
I need to be sure that 12.1 compiles our applications. There are issues, for example, with changes to the IEEE1394 API interface to cameras that we must resolve. After all these things are sorted out, then I can boot and use 12.1. But not before that. I realize a second computer would do the trick. But I like to make problems for myself. It is how I learn, I guess. After 12.1 is working, I will reverse the setup and use the existing 11.2 partition to chroot to and compile apps. Virtual machines are nice and I do use them. But chroot to a partition is also productive for certain tasks. I used to build Gentoo diskless images under SUSE this way.
From the comments thus far, it seems the bootloader setup is something I need to watch. Which I will.
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