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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers First Time Linux(Ubuntu) user, Installing Post 302427521 by pludi on Monday 7th of June 2010 01:32:50 AM
Old 06-07-2010
Hello, and welcome!

Yes, you could physically switch around your disks every time you want to switch the OS, but that's rather cumbersome. It's much easier to
  1. Boot into the Ubuntu installation
  2. Tell it to install onto the second disk
  3. and let it install the boot manager.
The boot manager (GRUB) can go either into the MBR (Master Boot Record) or the boot record of the second disk. The first option will let you boot either OS without any changes, but you'll have to do some work if you don't want that anymore. The second option will require you to tell the BIOS which disk to boot off every time (for recent BIOS versions there's a hotkey for that, usually the escape key).
 

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

DEBIAN
								 Debian Utilities						     WHAT-PATCH(1)
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