Re: How does one add a second Ubuntu installation to anexisting one?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 11:32:04AM +1200, John Little wrote:
> Rather than juggling partitions, consider using a btrfs. I typically have 
> four or five different *buntus in separate subvolumes. 
> 
> Also, I suggest also installing grub to its own subvolume (or partition), 
> and manually editing grub.cfg there, using the vmlinuz and initrd.img 
> symbolic 
> links so that the entries don't have to be updated frequently. I suggest 
> using partition labels in /etc/fstab and grub.cfg rather than UUIDs; they're 
> much more readable. 
> 
> If multiple distros have grub installed to update the boot, each tries 
> to control the boot and confusion is the result. Consider switching to 
> the grub package that does not automatically update the boot, at least 
> on all but one install, or none as in my suggestion above. 

Thanks for all these thoughts and ideas, I'm slowly working my way
towards a workable (for me) solution and every little helps.  :-)

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Chris Green