On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:55:13AM -0700, Sukrit D wrote: > > i have a celeron 1 Gig with 128 MB of Ram and a 40 Gig HDD. > i am currently running win ME and mandrake 8.2. i now would > like to give Suse 8.0 a try. what's the best way to install > these simultaneously ? i have to reinstall my mandrake any- > ways so that is not the problem and windows only gets a > little faster and sometimes even less crashy after a re- > install so i guess i could do that.i'm interested about the > partitioning and the bootloader. i have some liking for > mandrake's bootloader so i'd liek to keep that unless Suse > has somethin better. >
Just noticed that this query got no answers for over 24 hrs. What is your present partitioning strategy ? If you have some spare disk space left it will definitely be possible to have a second distro, without affecting MDK or ME ... Just install the second distro over the spare disk space after creating Type-83 partitions on the spare disk space. You can share the swap partition between MDK and SuSE. Do NOT place LILO on MBR after installation. Merely edit your lilo.conf under MDK and point it to the partition with kernel and /boot under MDK and things should work. This is assuming that the MDK bootloader uses LILO. No further changes needed. > > also, how is suse 8.0? better/worse than man 8.2? > This is a matter of personal opinion ... you cannot get any definitive answers. At least not from me ... I am neither on MDK or SuSE :-( HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Generating random data LOST #263 To generate some random data (e.g. to obtain an unique MD5 checksum when appended to to text file/ script) do: $head -c N /dev/urandom | mimencode > somefile.txt [where N is the no of random bytes needed eg 32, 64, 128 etc] ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
