From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbrown105@speedymail.org Subject: Re: how to install 2 linux(es) on a PC? Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:17:34 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031105211734.27B4571843@server2.messagingengine.com> References: <20031104153053.GA23387@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: terry white , linux-admin On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:00:59 -0800 (PST), "terry white" said: > on "11-4-2003" "Jim C. Brown" writ: > > : Which partitions are the 2 linuxes installed on? (I assume you > installed them > : on separate partitions, for obvious reasons they can't be installed > onto the > : same partition.) > > ... i don't see why not. given 'one' partition, create two file systems, I'm not sure how one can make 2 file systems on the same partition. Seems tricky to me. You might wanna either post an explaination on how it is done, or post a link to a page which explains the process. (If he wanted he could also use 2 separate hard drives, but I assume he can't afford that luxury so I pointed him into making 2 partitions, which is tricky but at least it doesn't cost money.) Also, AFAIK Lilo can only be made to select booting of PARTITIONS, so to be able to boot the 2 linuxes with Lilo, they'd have to be on separate partitions. If i'm wrong please correct me. I don't know anything about GRUB so that might be different. In any case, we are agreed: the 2 linuxes must at least be on separate file systems. > and make each distribution, descndant from the 'root' of each > > > : What does your lilo.conf/grub conif file look like? Whats the error > message > : that the boot loader gives you? > > "error" output is your friend. > I don't understand what you mean here. I'm asking for the output because I believe that will reveal some information about the problem (as would the config files). The more information we have the better. > > : P.S. I'm just curious, why do you want to have 2 linuxes installed in > the > : first place? > > i'm guessing "RH's" departure plays a part in it ... > Ouch. I'm not familiar with RH's departure, but I have heard that its raised a lot of issues. > > -- > ... i'm a man, but i can change, > if i have to , i guess ... > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service?