Debian + other distribution (more questions)

[Ricardo Gabriel Herdt <ricgh@matrix.com.br>]

Hi again, debianers,

  continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD,

     Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my
RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I select it to initialize the
existent swap partition or this will damage my RedHat? How should I proceed if
the answer be of you: "No, don't initialize the existent swap partition!"
   
                Thanks again,
 Ricardo Gabriel Herdt 


Em qui, 13 jul 2000, Ricardo wrote:
> Hi debian community,
> 
>      Well,
> 
>         I erased all on my HD and installed just RedHat,
>   Now I want to install Debian 2.2 without erase RedHat. 
>      My question is about lilo. On the installation of RedHat I installed lilo
> on the MBR.  But my version of lilo is a bit old. So I prefer to use Debian's
> lilo. How should I proceed to do this?
>      I thought in install Debian's lilo on it's partition and live RedHat's
> lilo on the MBR, so I would use my old lilo ( I think it wouldn't be so
> bad). Maybe I erase RedHat's lilo and install Debian lilo's on the MBR and
> configure it's lilo.conf too boot both distro's. If I install two lilos, one
> on the MBR and the other on debian's partitions this won't confuse the computer
> on the boot? What should I do?  
>     I'd like that you explain it step by step.
> 
>                Thanks,
>       Ricardo Gabriel Herdt