On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:12:00 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I would like to install a multiboot system but I don't have any free > partitions that are anywhere near large enough.
Post the ouput of "fdisk -l" so we can have an idea of your current hard disk layout. Remmeber that you can also resize the partitions to make room for the new system. > Is there any way that I can install into a directory on my existing > boot/root volume? Say in /new-sys ?? I *think* no. You need -at least- a separate "/" partition that holds the new system install (unless you do not want to keep data between reboots and so running the system from a sort of ramdisk ;-) ). > I have been looking at the doc that I have found on Grub but they only > talk about installing into a separate hard drive partition. GRUB can be indeed installed into the MBR or in the first sector of a partition, that's right. But, what has GRUB to do with a problem of hard disk space? :-? > I already have Grub on the existing system (Lenny). If you already have a GRUB bootloader installed there is no need to install a second GRUB, you can simply ignore the bootloader install step at install time and then instruct your Lenny's GRUB to boot the new system. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.12.22.14.38...@gmail.com
