On Monday 06 May 2002 10:06 am, skinky wrote: > On 06 May 2002 08:48, adrian wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat > > so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After > > the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo > > thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into > > mandrake control center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion > > and then rebooted, The option was there but when i chose it i got all > > kinds of failure and it wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 > > distribution on the same harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 > > swap for each distrubtion or can they share swap? If its possible to run > > 2 i would be gratefull if you could tell me how to set it up. > > Best regards Adrian > > I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the > one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share > between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition is you have > the same setup. > > During the redhat install I chose not to install a boot loader - thought I > would rather keep Mandrake's lilo going. When the rh installation finished > I rebooted with the boot floppy (made during installation) and all seemed > OK. > > I rebooted from the hard drive to Mandrake (with Mandrake's lilo) and > edited lilo.conf to include the rh partition. However upon running lilo (# > /sbin/lilo) I got an error about an older version. > > So I rebooted with the rh boot floppy, uninstalled lilo (rh had > automatically installed lilo but /etc/lilo.conf did not exist), then > reinstalled lilo. I edited the lilo.conf to include Mandrake and ran # > /sbin/lilo. All is well but I don't like rh's boot loader (its ugly). > > From what Civileme said I think you need to install rh first then install > Mandrake to use Mandrake's lilo. I might reinstall Mandrake later in the > week - I'm getting faster at setting up apache, samba and twiki and > upgrading all packages ; ). > > BTW rh is a lot slower than Mandrake on my machine! I'm still downloading > all the updates (sloooooww dial-up internet connection). IMHO rh's > installation is much cleaner/clearer than Mandrake's but I prefer Mandrake > any day! I needed to try rh because I only have Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 and > most of my friends who are keen to try linux have older i386/i486s. > > While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs > and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? > > skinky
if you have two /boot then copy the kernal and initrd from redhat to mandrake boot. (the ones with the version number after it). Edit /etc/fstab to mount one visible to the other. This info in from Civilemes more thorough reply on 20 April to the "Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distro's" thread. -- Michael
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