From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Narsimha Reddy CHALLA Subject: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:09:17 -0800 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E418B8D.A9A9E69A@npd.hcltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from npd.hcltech.com (creddy-pc.hclt-ntl.co.in [192.168.19.67]) by mailnpd.hclt-ntl.co.in (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h158bTV04848 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:07:29 +0530 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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