On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:47:01PM +0530, N S SURESH wrote:
>
> In this regard I want to have guidance as to how to have two
> distributions of Linux in a single m/c ? Till date I have
> installed linux in about 5 machines with a dual boot option
> when someone else has already prepared a non-DOS partition
> (I shiver at the thought of doing partitioning myself ! too
> risky for me !). Can you please give pointers to me to go
> about installing a second linux distribution in a m/c which
> already has win 95, PCQ Linux and LILO is on the MBR.
>
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Installing as many distros as you like is no great shakes as
long as you are on a clean hard disk, or have attached a 2nd
hard disk.
On an existing dual-installation, specially where the first
installation has been M$, and the initial partitioning has
been done with M$ fdisk, non-destructive partitioning is a
bit of a hassel. Since M$ fdisk makes only one PRIMARY and
the rest as a EXTENDED with several logicals under it. It is
impossible to put a second distro/ third OS, since there are
only two boot records available. You can do an UMSDOS install
(partitionless install as RH folk call it) of some distros
like Slack on the M$ partition itself and triple boot under
loadlin. LILO cannot handle a UMSDOS partition.
If you are prepared to lose everything which is on your exte-
nded partition(s), keeping only /dev/hda1 intact, I can give
you a step by step actin plan for doing re-partitioning under
Linux fdisk with three PRIMARY partitions and one extended,
with more logicals under it (disk space permitting). Any IDE
hard disk can cater for such partitioning. This would be a
pre-requisite for holding more than two bootable OSs on one
machine.
Meanwhile, have a look at two mini-HOWTOs:
a) Linux+Win95
b) Loadlin+Win95
Don't be fooled by M$ literature stating that M$ only accepts
ONE primary partition. An undocumented feature of DOS is that
since Ver 5.0 of MS-DOS multiple Primary partitions are very
much supported by all M$ OSs.
Write back if you are keen to jump in ...
Bish
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