Re: how to install 2 linux(es) on a PC?

[Cor <builder@bulky.ath.cx>]

greg wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:17, jbrown105@speedymail.org wrote:
> 
>>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,
>>
>>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.
[snip]

> although i could imagine having more than one, if the bootup procedure
> somewhere executed a "chroot", thus delineating a filesystem within a
> filesystem.  but it would be difficult to imagine wanting to bother to
> make such a setup actually work.

Although I prefer seperate partitions, this can be usefull if you only 
have one partition to build for instance LFS on http://linuxfromscratch.org/

A hint describing the process can be found here
http://www.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/one-partition-hint.txt


Greetz,
Cor Lem