On Tuesday 02 January 2001 10:23, you wrote:
> civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Civileme,
>
> Thanks for the article, interesting and helpful indeed. At the beginning of
> the article you mentioned that the installer feels that it has to overwrite
> the old system.
If you have a separate, common boot partition, no problem; my example is
without that.
Actually I did not experience anything like that. When I
> installed a new system (not from cooker, though) I just made a new root
> partition, mounted the old /home and /usr/local and the windoze partitions
> + the old linux root partition under /mnt/oldlinux. After that I let the
> installer to copy everything to the new root partition, and did not install
> bootloader (you can actually make a bootdisk, but you do not even have
> to). Then from the old system, just edit menu.lst, put a new title and
> point it to the appropriate new root and boot partition (which was the same
> in my case). And you can boot the new system from the grub, which was
> installed when you put the old system there...
>
> Viktor
>
> > http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001206025807
> >
> > There you discover how to do it(details).
> >
> > Civileme
>
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