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

[whitnl73@juno.com]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote:

> 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
> -

Well, you could change the partition type of the existing installation,
in hope that the installer will ignore it.  It doesn't matter to linux
what the partition type is as long as it has a filesystem of the type
expected in /etc/fstab.

Lawson


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