On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Nitebirdz,
>
> > Could someone please point me to any online documentation on how to install
> > multiple Linux distros on the same hard drive?
>
> I don't know about documentation on this subject, but there is not too much
> to this. Just create partitions for the different distro's and install them.
> If you use an older lilo make sure you put the different /boot partitions
> below 8GB. The easiest is to use just one installation to handle the
> bootloader.
> So you just install the new distribution, without installing lilo, boot to
> your first distro, add an entry for the new one in lilo.conf and run lilo.
> Simple as that.
>
Thanks a lot, Leonard. What worries me is that I read somewhere that the
I also needed to do something special for the swap partition. Basically,
it appears to be necessary to add something to the init routines to clean
up the swap partition before booting any of the distros.
Do you know anything about that?
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