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

[Narsimha Reddy CH <creddy@npd.hcltech.com>]

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". And I can boot both of them using LILO.

Regards,
- Narsimha

whitnl73@juno.com wrote:

>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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