Re: Debian and Fedora on one drive?

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Walbran
ora 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 sa

Re: Debian and Fedora on one drive?

2005-01-08 Thread Karoo
P. 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

Re: Debian and Fedora on one drive?

2005-01-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Karoo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > 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 the Debian install Grub wanted to know where to be put (out of > 3 options) an

Re: Debian and Fedora on one drive?

2005-01-07 Thread H. S.
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 (

Debian and Fedora on one drive?

2005-01-07 Thread Karoo
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 the Debian install Grub wanted to know where to be put (out of 3 options) and I chose the MBR. I was hoping it wouldn't hap

Re: Debian and Fedora

2004-08-11 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote: I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable s

Re: Debian and Fedora

2004-08-11 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote: > I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but > failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't > want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system. > I need

Debian and Fedora

2004-08-11 Thread Mingzhai Sun
Hello everyone, I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system. I need to run matlab 6.1 and labview 6.1. Please give me