Seve,
I agree with Henrik about the root and home partitions. I also have a small
/boot partition for each distro. The older version of LILO couldn't boot
above the 1024th cylinder, so it was necessary for me to install LILO into a
small (<20Mb) /boot partition that resided below the 1024th cylinder. I had
a small /boot partitions for each of my varios Linux distros. I then setup
a boot manager to give me the option to boot any of the installed OSes when
the PC was booting.
The current versions of LILO and GRUB support booting above the 1024th
cylinder, so you will no longer need to create a /boot partition that
resides below the 1024th cylinder.
I suggest using one of the following boot managers so that you can chose
from among the various installed OSes:
a) LILO - text based and FREE
b) GRUB - text based and FREE
c) XOSL - graphical and FREE (www.xosl.org) --it's very nice--
d) BootMagic - graphical but costs money (www.powerquest.com)
Hope that helps,
Matt
My installed OSes include:
1) Windows NT4 w/ SP6a
2) Windows 95 OSR2
3) Caldera eDesktop 2.4
4) Linux Mandrake 7.1
5) RedHat 6.1
>From: Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Distros on One Harddrive
>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:12:14 +0200 (CEST)
>
>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
>
> > I would like to be able to 'try' a distro while not affecting my
> > original. For those of you that are running a system that has at least
> > two Linuxes on one drive... What's your method for achieving this?
>
>Have one / (root) partition for every distribution.
>
>Have one /home (home) partition that all distributions share.
>
>--
>Henrik Edlund
>http://www.edlund.org/
>
>"Nothing happens in contradiciton to nature, only in contradiction to what
>we know of it."
> -- Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully, "The X-Files"
>
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