Hi Colin.
> New to this list. Could someone outline the possibilities please.
> Problem as below :-
>
> I have a 17Gb HDD. First 5 GB dedicated to Redhat 6.1 and runs an
> ax25 system for a DX cluster and ax25 node system.
>
> Want to try Redhat 7.2 - Tried a second install by creating a new
> 5GB partition. First time it did install, subsequent times it stops
> after 400 mb. However , the plan was to install this later version
> and run it from the existing Lilo. After ( successfully) installing
> 7.2 and running from a floppy , shut down 7.2 , booted 6.1 to
> include info into lilo.conf , run lilo but of course it cannot find
> files on an unmounted system (7.2).
>
> Questions are :- How to run a second version selectable from Lilo ?
> and are there still problems with installing between 5 and 10 GB
> down a hdd ?. I thought this 1023 cylinder thing had been overcome
> long ago.
The obvious solution would be to temporarily mount your 7.2 partition as
/mnt within your 6.1 partition, but you also need to ensure that each
entry gets a separate root= parameter. That would give you a lilo.conf
something like the following:
===============8<=============== CUT ===============>8===============
boot = /dev/hda
compact
delay = 50
install = /boot/boot.b
map = /boot/map
prompt
ramdisk = 16384
read-only
timeout = 50
vga = 1
password = NotLikely
restricted
default = 6.1
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label = 6.1
root = /dev/hda1
image=/mnt/boot/vmlinuz
label = 7.2
root = /dev/hda2
===============8<=============== CUT ===============>8===============
Change the password= line to whatever you prefer (and no, that isn't
mine), and also change the root= lines to suit, then mount your 7.2
partition wherever and run lilo to deal with the results.
Best wishes from Riley.
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