On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:38:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi guys, > > I have a pentium/100 computer whose bios cannot boot from cd-rom. i want to > install debian and red hat as follows: > > /hda1 2.5 gig. debian > /hda2 1.5 gig red hat > /hda3 115 meg. swap. > > i dont have partition magic but i would like to know if it is possible to > install debian (with booting from hard drive) and then install red hat linux > on the second partition and then set it up so i can choose which i want to > use.
Hi, I expect that a Pentium 100 would come with a BIOS that can only boot within the first 512 Mb of disk. If so, you would have to do a bunch of fiddling to get it to work as shown above, because each kernel would have to be below that 512 mb barrier. I always make a small /boot partition of about 10mb at the head of the disk. In your case make two, their small . . . and I would make a shared /home (right now I am using 88mb, so 500mb should be enough for most people, but this point is highly debated). /hda1 10mb Debian /boot /hda2 10mb Redhat /boot (put as /rhboot in Debian's fstab) /hdax 500mb joint /home /hdax 2xRAM joint swap /hdax 2 GB Debian /root /hdax remainder Redhat /root The important point I wanted to make was the 2 small partitions at the front. The rest is arbitrary. The advantage to the layout I have shown is that if you change your mind about distributions, you keep the first 4 partitions no matter what, and the only thing you would be wasting is a 10mb chunk. To configure LILO in a case like this, I think I would pick one distribution as the "master", probably Debian. Keep only one lilo.conf and execute lilo from there. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux