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". After editing the /etc/lilo.conf of first installation 
and updating the MBR with /sbin/lilo appropriately, I can boot both of them.

Regards,
- Narsimha


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
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