I tried a similar thing and i wasn't successful until i PHYSICALLY disconnected ALL
drives that
have ANY version of Linux on them. You will have to compensate for the change in
hardware (hda,
hdb, etc) - you can either put a dummy drive in to be hda, for example, to mimmic what
the setup
will be when you reconnect your original drive; or you can install on the new drive
and then
reconnect hda and mount your new drive and go and change fstab to reflect the change
in the
drive's position.
Does that make any sense? I'll try another way just quickly: You have 2 drives, HD1
and HD2, where
HD2 is your new drive. Right now, HD1 is hda and has LM6.1.
Here's the 2nd scenario i mentioned:
1. Disconnect HD1 completely, and connect HD2 to be your primary master.
2. Install your Mandrake 7.2. It will install and think of itself as hda.
3. Disconnect HD2 and reconnect HD1 in its original position (now it is hda again).
4. Connect HD2. It will be viewed by your Redhat system as hdx (x might be b,c,d etc
but not a).
5. Fire up your Redhat and mount your new drive. Let's say it's hdb and you mount it at
/mnt/newdrive
6. Edit /mnt/newdrive/etc/fstab and replace all instances of hda with hdb.
7. Edit your lilo/grub/bootloader to reflect the new drive & operating system (see
lilo-HOWTO
etc).
8. Have i forgotten anything?
The fist scenario would be the easiest. Just make sure you don't have any other
version of Linux
(i tried with two versions of Mandrake but having Redhat probably wouldn't help much)
installed on
any drive that is connected to your system, otherwise it won't like it one bit. It
MIGHT like it
if you were to share the swap partition, this is the one thing i never tried, but if
you don't
share it, it won't like it.
I hope that's helpful.......
j
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have LM6.1 on my first hard drive (hda) and
> recently got a new drive (hdb) and LM7.2.
> I would like to install LM7.2 on the second
> hard drive, while keeping LM6.1 on the first
> drive at least until I have the new system
> running OK. Is this possible and, if so, what
> are the tricky points? I use LILO as loader.
>
> I would particularly appreciate hearing from those
> who have successfully done it, but any help will
> be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Serge Pineault
>
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