Re: Debian and Fedora on one drive?

["Karoo" <kleinjie@kopjie.com>]

  Thanks for your replies.
I'm presently downloading the latest Sarge which I want to install over the
existing one.


"H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Karoo wrote:
> >   Hi.
> > I recently bought a 40 GB Maxtor and loaded Fedora onto the first 20 GB,
> > leaving 20 GB free.
> > Fedora was working O.K. so I loaded Debian Sarge onto the free 20 GB.
During
> > the Debian install Grub wanted to know where to be put (out of 3
options)
> > and I chose the MBR. I was hoping it wouldn't happen but of course it
did,
> > it overwrote the Fedora bootloader.
> > I don't want to know how to fix this, just how does one make the install
> > work for two distros.
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Karoo
>
> I have both on the same system along with WinXP. All on the same drive.
> I used the same /boot and /swap (both on separate partitions) for both
> Fedora and Debian. This works because the kernel names used by Debian
> and Fedora are distinct.
>
> In your case, I guess you need a grub entry that will point to Fedora.
> What I would do is, boot into Debian, then mount the other distro's
> partition (/boot, if it is on a separate partition), copy the relevant
> part of /boot/grub/menu.lst and copy that into the current (debian's)
> /boot/grub/menu.lst. Upon next reboot, you will see the new entry too.
> now, if you had separate /boot parititions for both distros, you could
> have used only one common /boot.
>
> Perhaps, others may be able to help you with a more efficient method.
>
> GL,
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