Re: Can a second F25 be installed on the same machine?

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On 01/01/2017 18:33, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Mayavimmer <mayavimmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I tried to do an identical second install on the same machine, but the
>> installer Anaconda gives an error about being unable to set a root
>> partition.
> 
> Reproduce the problem, then grab the logs from /tmp while still in the
> installation environment, and put them up somewhere. The likely useful
> logs will be storage.log, program.log, and anaconda.log.

Thanks, very useful info. Will do that.

> 
> It is possible to have two Fedora 25's on the system at the same time,
> with varying degrees of storage efficiency. The most efficient layouts
> use either Btrfs or LVM thin provisioning, sharing one storage pool
> for both installations (or even more than two).
> 
> The one gotcha will be the bootloader configuration, whether UEFI or
> BIOS firmware, only one Fedora bootloader exists at one time. My
> preference is to make use of the GRUB configfile command to point to
> another grub.cfg. Exactly how to set this up depends on whether the
> firmware is UEFI or BIOS.

Yes that is exactly one of the wheels I did not want to reinvent.

> 
> 
> 
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