Re: Debain+Fedora+Mandrake+Suse
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:58:58AM +0000, Simon L wrote:
> Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
>
> >Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
> >
> >>Vijaya S wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>Can we have Debain , Fedora, Mandrake and Suse on one machine..?
> >>>
> >>>Any suggestions atleast some combo of them..
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>Vijaya
> >>
> >>
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Yes you can have Debian and other distributions on the same computer.
> >>
> >>You need to have several partitions on 1, 2 or more disks...
> >>And you can share a single swap partition with all the distributions
> >>you'll be using on your machine.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Sylvain.
> >
> >
> >Hello list,
> >
> >I'm assuming this is possible using LILO as boot loader.
> >Am I correct?
> >
> >Sylvain.
> >
> >
> >
> Yes Lilo or grub as you wish
>
When I had Mandrake and Debian on one machine, the Mandrake treated my
hard disk as /dev/hda5, whereas Debian treated it as /dev/hda1. There was
some line in the lilo conf to rename the drive. I have no idea how to
get a lilo that renames it only for one OS, or why on earth Mandrake wanted
to renumber the drives.
This may pose a difficulty for those (like me) that have the same problem.
But becasue Mandrake had so many security/firewall barriers that I was
unable to use it, I made a boot diskette for Mandrake in case of emergency,
and let Lilo just boot Debian.
-- hendrik
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