On 06 May 2002 08:48, adrian wrote: > Hello, > > I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so > i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the > installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie > and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into mandrake control > center and added the hde which was the red hat partiion and then rebooted, > The option was there but when i chose it i got all kinds of failure and it > wouldnt boot up, so i wonder if i can run 2 distribution on the same > harddrive and computer ? and also do i need 1 swap for each distrubtion or > can they share swap? If its possible to run 2 i would be gratefull if you > could tell me how to set it up. > Best regards Adrian
I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition is you have the same setup. During the redhat install I chose not to install a boot loader - thought I would rather keep Mandrake's lilo going. When the rh installation finished I rebooted with the boot floppy (made during installation) and all seemed OK. I rebooted from the hard drive to Mandrake (with Mandrake's lilo) and edited lilo.conf to include the rh partition. However upon running lilo (# /sbin/lilo) I got an error about an older version. So I rebooted with the rh boot floppy, uninstalled lilo (rh had automatically installed lilo but /etc/lilo.conf did not exist), then reinstalled lilo. I edited the lilo.conf to include Mandrake and ran # /sbin/lilo. All is well but I don't like rh's boot loader (its ugly). >From what Civileme said I think you need to install rh first then install Mandrake to use Mandrake's lilo. I might reinstall Mandrake later in the week - I'm getting faster at setting up apache, samba and twiki and upgrading all packages ; ). BTW rh is a lot slower than Mandrake on my machine! I'm still downloading all the updates (sloooooww dial-up internet connection). IMHO rh's installation is much cleaner/clearer than Mandrake's but I prefer Mandrake any day! I needed to try rh because I only have Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 and most of my friends who are keen to try linux have older i386/i486s. While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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