-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings all, I guess I should chime in on this thread. I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 (zv6201cl) laptop. It has a 60 GB hard disk which had only Windows XP Home Edition on in a 20 GB partition.
At the time I purchased it, I decided to dual boot Debian and Windows. Yes, I have that one Windows application that I just can't part with (Bagpipe Player). Then, at the regular Friday night AKLUG Laboratory Session, someone suggested I load Fedora Core 4 (I think) to see how it worked. The reason was I couldn't get Sarge (64) to install. So, for a time, I had a) WXPhe on hda1 (32 bit I think - how can I tell?), b) Debian Sarge (broken) on hda2, and FC4-64 on hda3. I set up a VFAT32 partition (hda5) so I could share files between WXP and whatever Linux I happened to be using. I also set up a separate /home partition (hda6) with the idea that I could mount it on /home in whatever Linux I happened to be running. (I of course had a swap partition, hda7, too). The FC4-64 installation did have the proprietary ATI drivers, but I couldn't get the wireless to work. Also, Red Hat puts things in strange places, and they have a very different way of going about configuring things as compared to Debian. So, I decided to try SimplyMEPIS (a 32 bit distribution based on Debian). Thus, my present situation includes the ability to boot into either a 64 or 32 bit Debian system using grub on the mbr. I also can boot into WXP. Cheerio! fgd. Sven Krahn wrote: > On 5/23/06, *A J Stiles* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a > 32-bit > kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap > space, > but separate / partitions? > > > I use such configuration with GRUB but I don't see any reason why this > shouldn't work with LILO as well. > > I can boot into either the 64- or the 32-bit system, additionally I have > configured my chroot (in the 64-bit environment) to point into the same > 32-bit partition as well. For me this is the ideal setup allowing me to > work in 64-bit by default, have the few 32-bit applications (OpenOffice, > Firefox Flash plugin etc.) chrooted, but still having a fully functional > 32-bit installation in the backhand. > > However, I would be very much interested whether it is possible to share > other partitions between the installations as well (/etc in > particular)... any experiences? > > -- > Best regards / Mit den besten Grüssen > Sven Krahn - -- Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm .^. Debian/GNU Linux dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska /v\ "etch" Testing Since 1976 - Over 30 Years of Service. /( )\ User Number 269482 ^^-^^ "irad" 301256 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEdB362kl99FX0AIkRAuJ6AJ9PFz/8viiqRyEKw9N8kB77o1J8QQCglLys uRtPEEnWA608A8Bkl6plpKk= =cpV1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
