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On 09/05/11 13:05, Peter M Le Mare wrote: > That is something I thought of asking - but how do I do that, install > both interfaces? sorry if I sound stupid and naive. > > Life, love, peace and freedom > > Pete (Le M) > > if you have the space you dual boot the system so you have say 10.04 (or current linux) dual booting with say 11.04 which is what you want to try out / migrate to. You then reboot and switch between the two, this of course is fine if you have lots of disk space, but i did this for a few years with windows + Linux before dumping windows. You can generally mount all the file systems, so if you need to move stuff across, however I find I mess up on permissions sometimes, not sure what happens if you have 1 /home partition and keep the same user names. perhaps otherws here can offer a more technical insight in to this, when you are happy and have fully migrated you can set which ever system as the default (not sure how off hand) I am not sure how this would work if using 2 differnt distributions other than say ubuntu and ubuntu, if it works with ubuntu and suse for example, what happens if each use a different boot loader (grub, grub2, lilo, and someone mentions syslinux (is that a boot loader) hope this helps Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq