Re: two distros on one hd?
From: Rod Smith (rodsmith_at_nessus.rodsbooks.com)
Date: 10/20/03
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:04:47 -0400
In article <m21xt8ldbk.fsf@west_f1.net>,
Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org> writes:
>
> Anyone have pointers (links) to info on installing a second distro and
> booting between the two? Right now I have rh9, about 60G free space and
> wanting to take a look at gentoo.
Others have given good basic advice. One more bit of advice: If you're
using an older system, create separate /boot partitions for each
distribution below the 1024-cylinder mark (about 8GB on most computers,
but 504MB of *REALLY* old systems, like from before the mid-1990s). Some
people have had luck using a single /boot partition for both
distributions, but my experience is that this often causes weird
problems, so I wouldn't recommend it. The reason for this is that older
systems didn't support booting from beyond the 1024-cylinder mark, so the
kernel had to be kept below that point. Putting the kernel on a /boot
partition below the 1024-cylinder mark makes it easy to accomplish this
goal.
FWIW, I wrote a book on multi-booting -- see
http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/ for details. It's getting a bit long
in the tooth now, but might still be worth picking up if you can find a
copy at a good price.
-- Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking
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