Note that in th multi-boot configureatoin, you need to do your partitioning
before or during the initail Distro's install. My favorite thing to do is
get a tomsrtbt disk and do all the partitioning with is (via fdisk). then
you don't have to do any partitioning during your distro install, you only
have to set mount points.
I know for a fact that this method works with SuSE, Red Hat, Caldera,
Debian, Stormix and OpenBSD - thus, almost certainly all other distros too.
JW
At 08:31 PM 9/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Kevin Wood wrote:
> >
> > Hey there, got a question for you....
> >
> > I have a 26GB drive and I might possibly get a 40GB drive. I would like
> > to take the 40GB drive and install Win2000, RedHat, SuSE, Caldera, Turbo
> > Linux, Storm Linux and Trustix (who knows what else). No, I'm not
> > trying to find the best distribution. I would like to learn all the
> > differences between each distro and try them out. (I will also use some
> > space for Napster Goodies).
> >
> > What is the best way to accomplish this on one disk? I currently have
> > Windows98, RedHat and SuSE on the 26GB drive, but I need a boot disk to
> > get to SuSE. I figured I would use a shared /boot directory, but I can
> > find ideas of why this isn't good. I also figured I would use a
> > lilo.conf file that is copied between each OS, but this idea has BIG
> > holes in it.
> >
> > Any ideas? I'm willing to try anything. Thanks
>
>You can install one of the distributions and use lilo to boot. From
>there each time you install a different distro you can use the original
>distro/lilo to load the next one by making a new entry in
>/etc/lilo.conf. With a drive that big you will have to have the latest
>version of lilo because there are issues with older versions of lilo
>reading past 1024 cylinders. If I were you I'd get the first one
>installed, learn more about how lilo works and then worry about
>installing the rest.
>hth,
>kent
>
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