Booting off USB drive

[ed at eh3.com (Ed Hill)]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:40 -0400, Richard R. Malloy wrote:
> > > I have Fedora 3 installed on my laptop's (IBM t42) internal hard drive.
> > > I need to also boot into Redhat ES 3 so I can develop on that as well.
> > > Unless someone knows of a better way to access both distros, I thought I
> > > would just install ES 3 on an external USB hard drive and boot from that
> > > when I need to.  
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?  Advice?  Has anyone tried something like this before?  I
> > > noticed some references on the net, but they are spotty at best.


Are you developing a user-space application?  If so, you can forgo all
the inefficient re-booting and VM/Xen overhead and do it very quickly,
cheaply, and *simultaneously* in chroot-ed environments:

  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Distro-Dev/

Ed

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