Hi,
I mentioned this in a QA meeting, and have given it enough testing that I think it's
broadly usable. If desired it can be copied out of my user account and put up somewhere
where QA folks will see it and can modify it as issues or improvements are discovered.
What is it? The idea is to produce a system that can confidently be used for baremetal
testing, without risking the primary operating system. While VM's are a great way to
test, it's also a really idealized environment that tends to not expose an assortment
of bugs that affect particular hardware. But then quite a lot of folks reasonably
don't want to upgrade their daily use hardware early on, because they don't want
to always have to debug things, or have to figure out how to undo the upgrade if it really
goes badly.
Therefore, I present a dual-boot setup offering:
* no re-partitioning;
* no installation step, instead system upgrade is used;
* reversibility, or undoability, i.e. with just a few steps you can delete the "test
OS".
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy/Draft/dualboot_teststation
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Chris Murphy