only problems might be: if you mess up with lilo, and install it in the wrong place, you could corrupt the system so that the win system may be unbootable. There's documentation in the lilo docs about this.
You could either use debian or redhat to boot with, but I'd think that you'd want to be really careful to always keep youre /etc/lilo.conf (or /etc/grub.conf, if you're using grub as a boot loader) in sync, and/or make sure you never ever run lilo/grub from one or the other place. IIRC, you can only have 7 total partitions: 3 primary, and 4 logical (or is it the other way around?), so you may have to lt youre hda4 be one big partition for debian. Though I've seen many many os' on one computer before, and managed with lilo. I once had .98 linux, doc/win31, os/2 on the same machine, so... glen -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Elmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 02:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dell 4000 Hi everybody...I am new to the mailing list and debian, so please excuse my ignorance. I am currently running a dell inspiron 4000 with windows me and red hat 7.1, but I would love to add debian! I was wondering if there are any problems that I should expect or may encounter by trying to add debian as a third option. I'm not asking from the hardware compatibility side, but rather from the perspective of just having three operating systems to the machine. Here is the partition table and what I plan to do: Name Flags Partition type FS Type [label] Size(MB) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- hda2 Primary linux ext2 [/boot] 24.68 Unusable 57.58 hda1 Boot Logical Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 3767.71 hda4 Primary Win95 FAT32 (LBA [P^]c] 2097.45 hda5 Logical Linux ext2 [/usr ] 2097.45 hda6 Logical Linux ext2 [/ ] 1579.26 hda7 Logical Linux Swap 74.03 Logical Free Space 444.17 I plan on deleting hda4 and partitioning it into /usr, /home, and root for Debian. By doing this, will I create problems by trying to boot the 3 operating systems? I am assuming that Debian will control the boot process and allow me to enter red hat or windows...is this correct? Any potential problems and/or suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ryan Elmore Penn State - Dept of Statistics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
