I managed to put on a single 30G hard drive Mandrake 7.1, 8.0 , SuSe
7.0, Red Hat 6.2, slackware 8.0 and win98se. I used Mandrake 7.1 for
partioning and its lilo as boot manager. Then I installed all the
other distros. Finally, I booted mdk 7.1 by using a floppy and
modified /etc/lilo.conf. The most important part looks like
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9
label=helium
root=/dev/hda6
read-only
image=/mnt/traktopel/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9
label=traktopel
root=/dev/hda7
read-only
image=/mnt/suse7/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9
label=suse7
root=/dev/hda8
read-only
image=/mnt/zoot/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9
label=zoot
root=/dev/hda9
read-only
...and so on...
Then you need to modify /etc/fstab, mount all partitions and
run lilo at the command prompt. That's it.
Interaction: It'snot a good idea to use programs intended for other
distributions, however, I installed StarOffice5.2 on mdk-7.1 as root and
then as a user. For all other distros a symbolic link was enough. The same
for jdk 1.3.1. As you probably noticed I use the same kernel for all distros
(compiled with mdk-7.1 and copied over along with the file
System.map-2.4.9).
I hope, it was useful.
>From: Anguo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [newbie] dual linux distro boot.
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:57:24 +0800
>
>
>
>I wonder:
>
>has anyone ever installed two or more different linux distro on a single
>hard
>drive and set lilo to dual/triple/whatever boot?
>
>You don't need to tell me how to do it just yet: I have some documentation
>here that I am gonna read first.
>
>Actually the only doc I have is an article by a Simon N goodwin without
>any
>web references. A search on google about multilinux or several linux distro
>installed on the same box didn't give any result. No how-to, no nothing.
>Just
>this printed article.
>
>The only documentation is about dos + linux dual boot or Windrowse + linux
>dual boot but not linux + linux dual boot (in my case that would be
>mandrake
>as primary OS plus one or both of the two local distro: CLE or Linpus).
>
>I will read the win+linux dual boot doc anyway: I guess that most of the
>info
>is relevant all the same.
>
>I wish to be able the compare different distro at the same time, especially
>since I don't seem to be able (yet) to properly configure Mandrake so that
>it
>does what I want it to do with Chinese.
>
>I was thinking that either CLE or Linpus would have better chinese support
>all around.
>
>I will read my doc carfully and plan for success.
>
>Meanwhile I was curious about whether anyone else on the list has attempted
>that before.
>
>Did the installation go smoothly?
>How, in practical terms, do you use this setup for?
>How do the different distro interact together?
>Do you need one /home/user/ for each distro, or can you use the same for
>all?
>
>
>Thanks for any feedback
> (thanks anyway, even if there isn't any feedback :-D )
>
>
>
>Blessings,
>
>
>Anguo
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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