Hello ?,
Look again closely at my partition tables. I created ext2 partitions
for each of my linux distros and seperate boots as well. The only
thing shared here is my swap file by all the distros. So I have it
as hda1=win98, hda12 through hda15 for my linux ROOT partitions.
I think what you might have done was installed two distros on the
same root partition, and I don't know how well it would fly!
Good luck
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Now how did you manage to install FOUR different distros? I tried installing
> two (Mandrake + Storm, a debian derivative). While I was able to run stuff
> like
> Gnome (practically the whole bunch I guess), I ran into module loading
> problems.
> My Storm installation kept looking for the Mandrake modules.
>
> How did you keep the different distros from stepping on each other's
> filesystems?
>
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In response to a large number of replies, I'll send this via the deb-user
> > list instead.
> >
> > Below are links to great reading and WHY I wasn't able to do what
> > I originally tried. I did install 5 OS's tho, and left room for 2 more.
> >
> > I did run into the 1024 cylinder problem - anoying to say the least. So
> > during instals, I used fdisk (from red hat 6.2) and made the following:
> >
> > hda1 - fat32 (fdisk type c) win98se installed 1500mb
> > hda5 - "the EXTENDED partition" = boot for hda12 40mb
> > hda6 - boot for hda13
> > 40mb
> > hda7 - boot for hda14
> > 40mb
> > hda8 - boot for hda15
> > 40mb
> > hda9 - boot for hda16
> > 40mb
> > hda10 - boot for hda17 40mb
> > hda11 - swap file for all my linux installs 64mb
> > hda12 - root for first linux ext2 2048mb
> > hda13 - root for second linux ext2 2048mb
> > hda14 - root for third linux ext2 2048mb
> > hda15 - root for forth linux ext2 2048mb
> >
> > On my forth and last linux install, I asked for lilo to be installed onto
> > the
> > mbr. This was fully sucessful, and all I had to do was edit that lilo.conf
> > and
> > add the other 3 linux images. All boot wonderfully, as well as win98se. So I
> > have my five OS's all booting via the mbr and all boot sectors are before
> > 1024 on this 20GB hard drive. I still have room for 2 more OS's (hda9 &
> > hda10).
> >
> > I'm not sure if I could of done this more effectively. Perhaps used a common
> > BOOT partition for all my distro's. But this does work and will allow for
> > tweaking each as class progresses. Now if only X was as easy to configure!
> >
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