From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Narsimha Reddy CH Subject: Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:34:38 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E436896.80706@npd.hcltech.com> References: <20030205.160000.8.2.whitnl73@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: whitnl73@juno.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 > > >-- >---oops--- > > > > >________________________________________________________________ >Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today >Only $9.95 per month! >Visit www.juno.com >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > > -- Narsimha Reddy CH Storage Area Networking, HCL Technologies Contact +91-044 2372 8366 ext 1128 http://san.hcltech.com http://www.hcltech.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs