Re: dual boot, a different problem
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:43:43PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I suppose I would have a partitioning something like:
> /boot // about 10MB at the beginning of disk
> / // about 2GB, the root for Debian
> /alt // about 2GB, the root for the other distribution
> /hdx // about 18GB, the rest of my 20GB disk, shared between the two dists
> swap // about 200MB at the end of disk
>
> 1- Has anyone done such a thing? What problems did you find?
> Does the above make sense?
Many do this including my self.
Also /tmp can be shared between multiboot LINUXs.
/boot is not needed but does not harm.
> 2- My hardware is vintage 2000. I am aware of this issue of the first 1000
> cylinders. How do I determine if my hardware needs the special
> /boot partition? Do I need two boot partitions?
I thought LILO can handle this with lba32 set. "man lilo.conf".
GAG (www.rasttersoft.com) can handle it too.
I bet GRUB should handle it too.
Cheers:)
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