John wrote: <Snip>
<Snip> John
I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once one install of M9.1 is completed on the second more options are available
On one of my systems I have mdk9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-0.18 which I have played around with
for a couple of months getting things right. I decided to try dual booting with the same os so
that I can optimise my system with what I have learned. (I ended up with a lot of crap from my
efforts...as is sometimes the case when learning)
Yesterday I took a deep beath and installed a vanilla mdk9.1 on a spare partition and voila when it
came to load lilo the option was there to skip the bootloader installation. I installed with the existing
/boot partition then edited lilo.conf from my existing 2.4.21-0.18 install to point to the partition containing
the new vanilla 2.4.21-0.13 installation - reran lilo as root - rebooted and was able to select from either
version of the kernel. The only thing I had to do was reinstall the nvidia drivers for the new kernel and
edit the XF86Config-4 accordingly.
I did it mainly as an exercise to familiarise myself with the process for the upcoming 9.2 release and now
feel confident enough to eventually install mdk9.2 (when released) with mdk9.1 on the same drive in one computer.
Graham
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