How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

[Narsimha Reddy CHALLA]

Hi  All,

    I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh 
8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in
partitions say  /dev/hda5 ( /) ,  /dev/hda6  (/home) ,  /dev/hda7 (
/usr) ,
/dev/hda8 ( /tmp),... /dev/hda11  etc. 

   But how can I install the rh 8.0 in partitions say  /dev/hda12
( as "/" )  ... etc ??  Since the installer won't allow as there
already exists a  "/"  partition for the rh 7.2 and tries to override
it with the root partition of rh 8.0. So I tried giving a different
lable to the root partition of rh 8.0 say /root1 and other partitions
as /root1/usr, /root1/home, /root1/tmp etc. But here also the installer
is looking for the partition named "/" and without that the installation
is not happening. 


Please give your suggestions on how to resolve this problem.


At present my partition table with single installation (rh 7.2)  is,

[root@creddy-pc root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       261   2096451    6  FAT16
/dev/hda2           262      2434  17454622+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           262       522   2096451    6  FAT16
/dev/hda6           523       653   1052226   83  Linux
/dev/hda7           654      1175   4192933+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1176      1371   1574338+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1372      1436    522081   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda10         1437      1501    522081   83  Linux
/dev/hda11         1502      1566    522081   83  Linux
[root@creddy-pc root]#


TIA,
- Narsimha Reddy CH

Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

[Dave Kleikamp]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:09, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote:
>
> Please give your suggestions on how to resolve this problem.

I think this should work:  After the first install change the volume 
labels on the existing partitions (with e2label), changing /etc/fstab 
at the same time.  Then, you can use the labels the installer wants on 
the second install.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

[Narsimha Reddy CH]

Thanks a lot for your help. It really worked with disk driud. It 
cleverly managed the name conflicts of lables i.e. for first 
installation the root is "/" and for the second installation the root 
lable is "/1".  After editing /etc/lilo.conf of  first one and 
/sbin/lilo,  I can boot both of them using.

Regards,
- Narsimha

Dave Kleikamp wrote:

>On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:09, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote:
>  
>
>>Please give your suggestions on how to resolve this problem.
>>    
>>
>
>I think this should work:  After the first install change the volume 
>labels on the existing partitions (with e2label), changing /etc/fstab 
>at the same time.  Then, you can use the labels the installer wants on 
>the second install.
>  
>


-- 
Narsimha Reddy CH
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