Yes, with many a distro. (Slackware for example) that would be a trivial task. I have done it many a times. And this is what I dont like about Fedora/Redhat. They customize/automate everything so much that you are no longer the one in total control. I guess that comes free with all that "ease"!
Anyhow, here is a slightly risky way to do it. Run cfdisk / fdisk and note the partition table. Now relabel your Linux partition /dev/hdai to something other than '/'. Now during the partion part of the FC install, ask for the manual option. Make sure, FC is not formatting /dev/hdai. Ask it to format and use /dev/hdaj instead. Go ahead with the install. Go for Lilo. Complete the install. Reconfigure Lilo, and life should be fine! Its a bit risky, though! Good Luck, Anshul PS: [OffTopic] > A. Mani > Member, Cal. Math. Soc. What is Cal. Math. Soc.? I am a postgrad studying of pure math at the Indian Statistical institute. On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:12:34 +0530, A. Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > It can get very funny when you go for an updated version of > many distros. Especially when you like to install packages of your > interest, kernels, betas and latest desktops. The update/ fresh-install > option provided is quite inadequate ... for e.g with FC. In the > situation most people would not like to remove the parallel version and > more so if it a production system. ...and certainly not dare an update > (image backups would need too much time). > I want to know whether the following mode of "updating" is > possible. Let version x be a distro installed in /dev/hdai and we want > an updated version of x by x+ in /dev/hdaj with the original > installation intact. For security reasons this is best done if the > initiation part is controlled by version x. Any ideas ? > > Best, > > A. Mani > Member, Cal. Math. Soc. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is > NO. ---------------------------------------------------------- -- I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig, so i stole someone else's. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
