Hello Jaye,
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Well I guess I may have shared a partition or two. I'm not sure what exactly you
mean by "same root partition." But here's the [annotated] view from
Mandrake.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] penguin]$ df
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 380M 49M
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
Installing into the same partition is not a simple thing to do. (Need special
script to rearrange directory structure and possibly several initrd images
I think. This is more complicated than making a distribution. Why bother.)
Everyone usually install each distro to a partition and mount other
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.
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 version of LILO that comes with potato doesn't
have the 1024 cylinder limit anymore.
I use it to boot 4 os . I am using a 13GB disc with 3
primary partitions and an extended partition. I have LILO
in my last partition above 10GB.
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:50:20 -0400 , Anderson, Ti
Don't know if anyone's suggested this yet - it might be easier to manage if
you put lilo on a partition and point to all your linuces from there.
Solves the 1024 cylinder problem anyway. I use BootMagic (which comes with
PartitionMagic) on my MBR to go to LILO or any proprietary OS.
Tim
-- Original Message --
From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:48:26 +0200
>5 OS's ?!
>WOW good luck!
I've been doing that with Partition Magic (DOS, Win98, WinNT, Win2K Pro, RedHat
6.2), across 2 IDE disks - 40G and a 17G. Never a pro
5 OS's ?!
WOW good luck!
you might have a problem loading some of them, though, if they start
after the 1024th cylinder (roughly 8.5 GB). The BIOS won't be able to
see your kernel image after that.
If they're all linuces (that's plural for linux) try partitioning only
the root partition (no more th
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 05:36:29PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Am doing project here loading up many versions of linux. I wish to
> use my 20gb hd. All was going well until I reached the 4 primary partition
> mark - and fdisk said no in no uncertain terms and complained t
Hello,
Am doing project here loading up many versions of linux. I wish to
use my 20gb hd. All was going well until I reached the 4 primary partition
mark - and fdisk said no in no uncertain terms and complained that I
should wack a partition and build an extended partion.
I won't bore the l
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