Hi,
In the Original question, I had in mind the config of 3GB HDD,
Win95,PCQ Linux (LILO in MBR). The thought that prompted the question was I
am planning to attach a 20GB HDD as a second HDD in a week's time. In that
case how to install the third OS ( Second Linux distro)?
N S Srikanth
----- Original Message -----
From: "USM Bish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:26 PM
Subject: [LIH] Second distro [was Re: Switching from PCQ to Caldera Linux]
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:47:01PM +0530, N S SURESH wrote:
> >
> > In this regard I want to have guidance as to how to have two
> > distributions of Linux in a single m/c ? Till date I have
> > installed linux in about 5 machines with a dual boot option
> > when someone else has already prepared a non-DOS partition
> > (I shiver at the thought of doing partitioning myself ! too
> > risky for me !). Can you please give pointers to me to go
> > about installing a second linux distribution in a m/c which
> > already has win 95, PCQ Linux and LILO is on the MBR.
> >
> ---end quoted text---
>
> Installing as many distros as you like is no great shakes as
> long as you are on a clean hard disk, or have attached a 2nd
> hard disk.
>
> On an existing dual-installation, specially where the first
> installation has been M$, and the initial partitioning has
> been done with M$ fdisk, non-destructive partitioning is a
> bit of a hassel. Since M$ fdisk makes only one PRIMARY and
> the rest as a EXTENDED with several logicals under it. It is
> impossible to put a second distro/ third OS, since there are
> only two boot records available. You can do an UMSDOS install
> (partitionless install as RH folk call it) of some distros
> like Slack on the M$ partition itself and triple boot under
> loadlin. LILO cannot handle a UMSDOS partition.
>
> If you are prepared to lose everything which is on your exte-
> nded partition(s), keeping only /dev/hda1 intact, I can give
> you a step by step actin plan for doing re-partitioning under
> Linux fdisk with three PRIMARY partitions and one extended,
> with more logicals under it (disk space permitting). Any IDE
> hard disk can cater for such partitioning. This would be a
> pre-requisite for holding more than two bootable OSs on one
> machine.
>
> Meanwhile, have a look at two mini-HOWTOs:
>
> a) Linux+Win95
> b) Loadlin+Win95
>
> Don't be fooled by M$ literature stating that M$ only accepts
> ONE primary partition. An undocumented feature of DOS is that
> since Ver 5.0 of MS-DOS multiple Primary partitions are very
> much supported by all M$ OSs.
>
> Write back if you are keen to jump in ...
>
> Bish
>
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