Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian

2001-02-15 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, hanasaki wrote: > I have a HD with > > /boot > / => a complete install of debian > > I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s). - mount the "another partition" to /mnt - copy everything in / to /mnt (but exclude /mnt, of course) cp -avf /root /var/ /home

Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian

2001-02-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Pann, Interesting approach and clean. I have alternatives to this (from my actual machine.) focusing on redundancy in mind. 1. Use non-lilo mbr on master boot record(/dev/hda). mbr is good. 2. Install lilo in each partition (like /dev/hda1) 3. To make booting path redundant, mount other linu

Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian

2001-02-14 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 14:31, hanasaki wrote: > I have a HD with > > /boot > / => a complete install of debian > > I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s). > > How do i do this so that lilo.conf refects both debians? Wont the 2nd > install make its own /etc/lilo.conf and thu

Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian

2001-02-14 Thread mike polniak
hanasaki wrote: > I have a HD with > > /boot > / => a complete install of debian > > I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s). > > How do i do this so that lilo.conf refects both debians? Wont the 2nd > install make its own /etc/lilo.conf and thus make a lilo boot prompt > onl

RE: Installing 2nd bootable debian

2001-02-14 Thread George Wright
I think you'd be able to do this by installing the new distribution on a separate partition (hd?) and during the install, don't write the boot record to mbr (there are other options of where to write it, including floppy (which is probably a good idea) maybe /boot(?)) Then, once installed, add