Re: debian + red hat linux

[Jonas Anderson <jea@abc.se>]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:

> 
> Hi Cris,
> 
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 DebianBeast@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > /hda1 2.5 gig. debian
> > /hda2 1.5 gig  red hat
> > /hda3 115 meg. swap.
> > 
> > i dont have partition magic but i would like to know if it is possible to 
> > install debian (with booting from hard drive) and then install red hat linux 
> > on the second partition and then set it up so i can choose which i want to 
> > use. 
> 
> It should be possible somehow. 

	I have Slackware paralell to my main Debian instalation.
	What I did was put the Slackware vmlinuz-image in a dir
	I named /lilo.
	I don't know if this is helpful but I found this the 
	the best way for me to keep things in order.

	I booted into slackware from floppy, mounted the Debian 
	partition and then copied the bootimage to /lilo rebooted
	into Debian and ran /sbin/lilo (I had already edited my
	/etc/lilo.conf) and everything works very nicely.

	Not beeing a Linux guru I hope somebody will sound of if there
	is anything wrong with this setup.

	Jonas Anderson

------------- exampel lilo.conf-----------------------------------------

	boot=/dev/hda1
	root=/dev/hda1
	install=/boot/boot.b
	map=/boot/map
	vga=normal
	delay=100
image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        root=/dev/hda1
        read-only
image=/vmlinuz.old
        root=/dev/hda1
        label=Old
        read-only
image=/lilo/vmlinuz.slack
        root=/dev/hdc1
        label=slack
        read-only