Re: Debian and Fedora on one drive?
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 2:38 am, Karoo wrote:
> Thanks for your replies.
> I'm presently downloading the latest Sarge which I want to install over the
> existing one.
Why not just use apt-get rather than doing a fresh install?
Andrew Walbran
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> "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
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> > > the Debian install Grub wanted to know where to be put (out of 3
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> options)
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> > > and I chose the MBR. I was hoping it wouldn't happen but of course it
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> did,
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> > > 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,
> > ->HS
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