On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:07 pm, J or M Montgomery wrote: > Hello folks > > I have not been able to find an answer to this question but it must be so > simple I am looking right through it. > > I have installed 10.0 (clean install, but keeping /home). This was some > time ago and there were problems which caused me to revert to 9.2. I was > in a hurry to actually get some things done and didn't have time to > troubleshoot. > > Now I would like to put 10.0 OE on my disk and figure out what is wrong > while maintaining 9.2. > > Can they coexist on the same HDD? > > How would partitioning be done? > > Will Lilo pick them both up or will it need tweaking? > > My current partition table is like so: > > hda1 /boot ext3 > hda5 swap > hda6 / 10G Reiser > hda7 /home 12GB Reiser > empty about 55GB > > Any help will be appreciated. > > John Montgomery
Hi John, No problem doing this. Install with whatever partitioning you choose using the empty space. At the end of the install, choose to put the boot manager elsewhere other than the MBR. When you reboot your system will come up with just the old 9.2 system. Mount your newly created 10.0 boot partition somewhere and edit lilo.conf to add a stanza pointing at the new system. If you follow the example of the existing stanzas, it will be fairly obvious what to put in there. Run lilo and if it successfully adds your new system, try booting to it. Stir and repeat as necessary ;-) HTH Brian
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