On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:58:58AM +0000, Simon L wrote: > Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > > >Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > > > >>Vijaya S wrote: > >> > >>>Hi all, > >>>Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..? > >>> > >>>Any suggestions atleast some combo of them.. > >>> > >>> > >>>Regards, > >>>Vijaya > >> > >> > >>Hello, > >> > >>Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer. > >> > >>You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or more disks... > >>And you can share a single swap partition with all the distributions > >>you'll be using on your machine. > >> > >>Cheers, > >>Sylvain. > > > > > >Hello list, > > > >I'm assuming this is possible using LILO as boot loader. > >Am I correct? > > > >Sylvain. > > > > > > > Yes Lilo or grub as you wish >
When I had Mandrake and Debian on one machine, the Mandrake treated my hard disk as /dev/hda5, whereas Debian treated it as /dev/hda1. There was some line in the lilo conf to rename the drive. I have no idea how to get a lilo that renames it only for one OS, or why on earth Mandrake wanted to renumber the drives. This may pose a difficulty for those (like me) that have the same problem. But becasue Mandrake had so many security/firewall barriers that I was unable to use it, I made a boot diskette for Mandrake in case of emergency, and let Lilo just boot Debian. -- hendrik > > -- > 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]
