This article from IBM developerWorks walks you through the steps of dual-booting by showing you how to install multiple instances of the same Linux distribution on a single drive, which allows you to easily test different libraries with the same program, watch how your program interacts with others, or tweak a parameter here or there just to see what happens. This comes in handy for development, testing, or customer support. There is sample code included in this article.

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