Steve Spears wrote:
Grettings:There is nothing particularly mysterious about dual linux booting.
Was wondering if anyone had a good site that explains dual booting Mandrake 9.0 and 8.2. I have 9.0 installed and want to dual boot 8.2 that is on a different drive. Basics: 9.0 on one drive, want to add another drive to same machine and load 8.2 on the new drive.
Any links or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
There are two ways, but the simplist way is to create a /boot partition,
then drakX the mandrake installer knows what to do all by itself.
Care has to be taken that when you come to install lilo in the second
install that the stanzas are correct for each OS partition .This
is accomplished by selecting the appropriate entry from the drop
down menu for each aspect of the lilo stanza.Take your time here
and get the choices right.Basically the lilo installer is reading what
it can find in the abovementioned /boot partition, and these will
include kernels, initrd.image files.
As far as layout of your linux partitions is concerned it does not matter
which drive you install them on. Swap partitions are best sited near
the middle of whichever drive you choose, though not essential.
John
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