From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cor Subject: Re: how to install 2 linux(es) on a PC? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:31:44 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FAF7720.6050201@bulky.ath.cx> References: <20031104153053.GA23387@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <20031105211734.27B4571843@server2.messagingengine.com> <1068134298.28593.110.camel@ruby.rub.belfastdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1068134298.28593.110.camel@ruby.rub.belfastdata.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin 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