Re: Debian + other distribution
Hi debian community, Well, I erased all on my HD and installed just RedHat, Now I want to install Debian 2.2 without erase RedHat. My question is about lilo. On the installation of RedHat I installed lilo on the MBR. But my version of lilo is a bit old. So I prefer to use Debian's lilo. How should I proceed to do this? I thought in install Debian's lilo on it's partition and live RedHat's lilo on the MBR, so I would use my old lilo ( I think it wouldn't be so bad). Maybe I erase RedHat's lilo and install Debian lilo's on the MBR and configure it's lilo.conf too boot both distro's. If I install two lilos, one on the MBR and the other on debian's partitions this won't confuse the computer on the boot? What should I do? I'd like that you explain it step by step. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Debian + other distribution (more questions)
Hi again, debianers, continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD, Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I select it to initialize the existent swap partition or this will damage my RedHat? How should I proceed if the answer be of you: No, don't initialize the existent swap partition! Thanks again, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt Em qui, 13 jul 2000, Ricardo wrote: Hi debian community, Well, I erased all on my HD and installed just RedHat, Now I want to install Debian 2.2 without erase RedHat. My question is about lilo. On the installation of RedHat I installed lilo on the MBR. But my version of lilo is a bit old. So I prefer to use Debian's lilo. How should I proceed to do this? I thought in install Debian's lilo on it's partition and live RedHat's lilo on the MBR, so I would use my old lilo ( I think it wouldn't be so bad). Maybe I erase RedHat's lilo and install Debian lilo's on the MBR and configure it's lilo.conf too boot both distro's. If I install two lilos, one on the MBR and the other on debian's partitions this won't confuse the computer on the boot? What should I do? I'd like that you explain it step by step. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Re: Debian + other distribution (more questions)
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:49:27AM -0300, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: Hi again, debianers, continuing my questions about two distributions on the samen HD, Somebody told me that Debian could use the same swap partition of my RedHat. So, when I install Debian, should I select it to initialize the existent swap partition or this will damage my RedHat? How should I proceed if the answer be of you: No, don't initialize the existent swap partition! Just use the same swap, I know it can even be done with OpenBSD and Linux sharing the same swap ... I can't think of any problems with Linux + Linux, but you might need to use 2.2.* kernels on both, but I'm not sure. HAND Morten -- Morten Liebach [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Re: Debian + other distribution
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: I have a HD 10.2 with win95 at the begin (first 1500MB) and another Linux dist. on a partition of 3000MB. (The distribution is Conectiva Linux, similar to RedHat). I want to install Debian 2.2 on another partition without remove neither win nor my other dist. How should I proceed to do this? (...) And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. (said that because it can be an important information.) Yes, that helps. You can mount this partition in both distros, just use different names for the kernel images (though you should even be able to use the same kernel image). You should know how to setup lilo properly (or whichever boot loader you use). Should contain something like image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-debian label=GNU debian root=/dev/hda2 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 label=old distro root=/dev/hda3 read-only but I'm not 100% sure. bye, Raoul -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better. So I installed Linux.
Re: Debian + other distribution
Hi debianers, And how shold I proceed to use the same /boot partition for both distributions? Should I expand it? Debian 2.2 install it's kernel image on /boot automatically? Thanks for those who answerd me. Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. (said that because it can be an important information.) Yes, that helps. You can mount this partition in both distros, just use different names for the kernel images (though you should even be able to use the same kernel image). bye, Raoul
Re: Debian + other distribution
And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. (said that because it can be an important information.) You can put the file /boot/vmlinuz (kernel) in that partition. Then you can add the entry to your /etc/lilo.conf.
Re: Debian + other distribution
And how shold I proceed to use the same /boot partition for both distributions? Should I expand it? Debian 2.2 install it's kernel image on /boot automatically? I think it does. If not, look in /etc/lilo.conf where it is and move it to /boot. You dont need to enlarge the partition. Edit lilo.conf. Use man lilo.conf. Bye, Raoul -- The program required me to install Windows 95 or better. So I installed Linux.
Debian + other distribution
Debianers, I have a HD 10.2 with win95 at the begin (first 1500MB) and another Linux dist. on a partition of 3000MB. (The distribution is Conectiva Linux, similar to RedHat). I want to install Debian 2.2 on another partition without remove neither win nor my other dist. How should I proceed to do this? Obs.: My computer has the limit of the 1024 cilinders and I want to know where is this limits in megabytes and how to deal with this problem if the Debian partition be created over the 1024 cilinders? Maybe I'll remove win95 from my computer ( if my family accept). Will this revolution (yeah!!) help me to install two Linux distributions on the same HD? And more, I have a /boot partition of 16MB to boot my Conectiva Linux. (said that because it can be an important information.) Thanks, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
