I currently have 3 linux distros installed
on (1) hd. I used to have (2) and did it
the same way as described below.
a) install one distro (I installed MDK)
b) install second, and third, etc...
c) make sure you make a boot disk for each
d) I made a dir in /boot of mdk for each
of the other distros. i.e. Redhat, Debian....
e) copy the contents of the other distros /boot
to the respective mandrake /boot
f) edit /etc/lilo.conf accordingly
g) re-run lilo, reboot, and choose from
the graphical menu (That is why I chose
Mandrake as first installed)
h) I even have win 98 and 2k installed and
choose them the same way!
Brian D. Klar - CVE
OTS
WPAFB
-----Original Message-----
From: H.J.Bathoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 7:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Two Distros, Two Hard Drives, One PC
On Saturday 24 November 2001 22:33, you wrote:
> I'm trying to create a 'dual boot' with two distros.
>
> Currently on hda I have e-smith(firewall distro), and on hdd I have
> mandrake 8.1.
>
> I wanted to move the firewall to mandrake, BUT I didn't want to have to
> keep unpluging Hardrives while setting things up, I wanted to just quickly
> select a new distro at start. I'm having a hard time finding any howto's
> for two distros, of course tons of stuff for linux/windows.
>
> Can anyone show me an example of what the lilo.conf file should look like?
>
> After installing mandrake, I mounted the hdd drive while on e-smith(hda)
> and took a look at hdd's lilo.conf and hda's lilo.conf and no of them have
> any reference point to the other distro.
>
>
>
The easiest way out is to boot one of the two with a bootfloppy. This is also
a nice way of testing a new installation without throwing the old one to the
dogs straightaway:) You don't even need a seperate disk, partitions will do.
Sharing /home between the two is a bit risky though.
Good luck
Harm Bathoorn.
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