Gary,
1st thing I'd recommend is to add the new hard drives and boot back up
into your "known good" RH5.0.
Then, run fdisk on the new drives and get the partition sizes you like
in a stable environment. Run fsck on the new partitions and you are now
ready for the new install on 6.1. All you will have to do is tell 6.1
what partitions belong to what filesystems.
ie:
/dev/hdb1 /boot ##(15 - 20 MB)
/dev/hdb2 /
etc...
I personally have LILO on a floppy. To do that, when you install 6.1,
tell the installer to write LILO to the floppy and you haven't dorked
up your /dev/hda. (You'll have plenty of time for that later...;-) )
The main lines in /etc/lilo.conf you are concerned with are:
<clip>
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
</clip>
After you have 6.1 up and running, you can then change your new
/etc/lilo.conf (after cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.good) and
play all you want. You will still have a bootable lilo floppy to
bail yourself out with.
Have fun,
--
Rick L. Mantooth
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, gnielson wrote:
=> I have a Pentium 200 that's about 3 1/2 years old, 2 gig hard drive, 32
=> megs of RAM, running Redhat 5.0.
=>
=> I want to add more memory and a couple of more big IDE drives. I would
=> like to add the 2nd and 3rd drives and install Redhat 6.1 on the 2nd
=> drive. I would like to then boot from the 2nd drive and mount the first
=> drive as oldsys/. The new drives will be unformatted.
=>
=> When installing RedHat 6.1, can I tell it to install on the 2nd drive? I
=> am assuming I can do this? But then where is lilo.conf installed? Is it
=> installed on that same drive? And then I will have lilo.conf on two
=> drives. Must Linux boot from the first drive? I could, I imagine, edit my
=> lilo.conf from /hda to boot from /hdb, but really I want to automatically
=> boot from drive 2.
=>
=> Is this something that I need to do by editing my Dell PC's setup to tell
=> it what drive to boot from?
=>
=> Any advice appreciated.
=>
=> Gary
=>
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