On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:04:03PM -0500, Ryan Elmore scribbled... > 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, > <wild guess> I *think* it might work by telling lilo under Debian to boot RedHat as an 'other' type set to /dev/hda2. (Or the reverse for booting Debian under RedHat's lilo). I don't think Lilo has a way of understanding that a certain / partition (or other partition) belongs to a specific Linux install. </wild guess>
If you don't get much in the way of responses on this list, which is low traffic, cuz it's notebook centric, try it on debian-user, where it's more generic Debian, and *much* higher traffic. And on the hardware compatibility side...get a list of what hardware modules you have from your RedHat, because Debian doesn't have a hardware detection tool as part of the install. It's all manual.
