Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
- Original Message - From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? Kirk McElhearn wrote: How do I know if I have this problem...? This problem arises because of the PC's BIOS PROM's inability to boot beyond cylinder 1023. If you use a Boot Manager, and make sure it is located below cylinder 1024, then only this Boot Manager is ever booted by the BIOS. The Boot Manager does the rest of the booting and if you choose a modern one then it has no 1024 cylinder or 8Gb limit in what it can boot. Hooray! And, again, if you use the nuni bootloader there is =no= BIOS limitation. Hoyt _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Will you be booting off an IDE drive? If so, chances are you have this problem. Of course, SCSI drives have their own problems -- you have to build support for your SCSI card into the kernel. John
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. How do I know if I have this problem...? Kirk On my PC Linux sees the same number of cylinders as the BIOS (which is different from the label on the drive). Is this always the case? If so you only need to look at the BIOS settings. Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Geez, man! Read the post. I answered that question in the VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH of the same posting!! Here is my original post: -- Sure. Whatever. You can create 'em ahead of time, create 'em on the first install, or create 'em as you go (just leave the end of the disk un-paritioned on the first install). IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. I'd probably FIRST do a test install on the disk where I had a dummy empty partition 1050 cylindars large, and install into / for the rest of the disk, with default options. If this one boots, then you know you don't have to worry about the 1024 limit; if it fails, then you do. THEN proceed with either the simple approach or the complex one, depending on whether you have the 1024 problem or not. -- On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On 6/04/00 19:03, Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] is | reported to have said: | | IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create | all the /boot paritions on the first install. | | How do I know if I have this problem...? | | Kirk | | | |vice versa | Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing | Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com | Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
With regard to home directories, I've found it most useful to have seperate /home partitions that hold all the config files and all that, and a /home2 partition, which can be shared. On this partition each user gets another directory that they own, and then they can put "big" stuff that will be the same for each distribution (like multimedia files, for instance) in their /home2 area and make a symlink from /home to there. It works for me; YMMV. -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirk McElhearn Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:22 AM Subject: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I didn't see any support for Linux partitions, but then I did not read the 'primer'. Pj Bill Shirley wrote: I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On 6/04/00 7:21, Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: See what I mean? I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Can I run diskDrake from the current Mandrake installation (on the older HD) to partition the new disk? Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Ranish Partition Manager does support Linux partitions. I like the text based boot manager best. It allows you to type the number of the partition to boot or type zero to go directly into the partition manager. Pretty easy to use, also. Just remember, when resizing a partition, to use the + and - keys; it's easier that way. It will copy data from one partition to another. I believe it will boot partitions above the 1024 cyl. line. It has instructions for booting Win9x and NT above the 1024 cyl. line. If you're doing an install to a clean hard disk, I recommend downloading Ranish, unzipping to a floppy, booting the floppy, and configuring the boot manager (text based) in the space right after the Master Boot Record (uses about 500K) which is usually unused because all fdisk programs (MS and Linux) like to align partitions on a cylinder boundary. After installing the boot manager, you can use Ranish, DiskDrake, or any other program to define your Linux partitions. You won't need lilo at all. It should be easy enough to investigate now. I think you will find it very useful. And if you're hard disk is still clean, it won't be so scary to experiment with it. Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pj Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? I didn't see any support for Linux partitions, but then I did not read the 'primer'. Pj Bill Shirley wrote: I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Sure. Whatever. You can create 'em ahead of time, create 'em on the first install, or create 'em as you go (just leave the end of the disk un-paritioned on the first install). IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install. I'd probably FIRST do a test install on the disk where I had a dummy empty partition 1050 cylindars large, and install into / for the rest of the disk, with default options. If this one boots, then you know you don't have to worry about the 1024 limit; if it fails, then you do. THEN proceed with either the simple approach or the complex one, depending on whether you have the 1024 problem or not. On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On 6/04/00 7:21, Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have | said: | | See what I mean? | | I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? | When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that | time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on | the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing | anything? | | Can I run diskDrake from the current Mandrake installation (on the older | HD) to partition the new disk? | | Kirk | | | |vice versa | Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing | Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com | Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? I'd suggest making the partitions ahead of time, for simplicity. That way, you'll know what you want to do before you start installing, and won't have to deal with any inept install partitioning tools you might run across. Planning is good. And you can use any partitioning tool you like- except for Microsoft FDISK.EXE, because it doesn't understand anything outside of MS-Land. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Bill Shirley wrote: After installing the boot manager, you can use Ranish, DiskDrake, or any other program to define your Linux partitions. You won't need lilo at all. Don't you? You still need something that will read into the ext2 filesystem and locate the kernel. LILO is also nice because it allows you to add "append=" strings, and specify a runlevel for init. Can you do this with other boot managers? I know that you can keep LILO in the boot sector of the Linux partition, and have the other boot manager load LILO, which loads the kernel, but can the other boot managers actually load the kernel? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Kirk McElhearn wrote: Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Good partitioning is so essential to the running of any multiple-OS computer that it isn't worth taking any risks with (like tyres on a car, and the battery in cold climates). Partition Magic is mature, well known, and works well for all OSs and file system types. Ranish is only beta, Mandrake's partitioner is too new (look at the history of bugs behind Partition Magic!). The basic problem is that there is no ISO, or any other, standard or organisation in charge of how disks should be partitioned - for example, Windows traditionally builds the partition tables in start cylinder number order, Unix/Linux traditionally builds them in creation time order. Fundamental ditfferences like that make interworking catastrophic. Because this whole area has just grown like Topsy, it is not well designed, and has been much klooged over the years to retain the required backwards compatibility. Therefore there are lots of gotchas. For a salutory education, just look at the error message listing in the back of the Partition Magic manual!. Mandrake has not yet published the error messages for its partitioner. So, yes, set up your hard disks with a good multi-OS and multi-file-system-type partitioner before you install. The only one I know that can be confidently trusted is Partition Magic. Yes, it does cost, but it's more than worth it. Partitioning is not just a one time job - you will be readjusting the partitioning, say, monthly, as your space demands grow. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
What I have typically done in the past is to make partitions for the first OS (typically Win95) and leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned. When I load the next OS, I partition specifically for that, and so on. I give the most space to the primary OS, and less to the others. That way, I don't have to worry about resizing partitions and losing data, since I am essentially working with a bare drive. Of course that takes planning ahead of time. -scott On 7 Apr 00, at 10:54, Ron Stodden wrote: Kirk McElhearn wrote: Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Good partitioning is so essential to the running of any multiple-OS computer that it isn't worth taking any risks with (like tyres on a car, and the battery in cold climates). Partition Magic is mature, well known, and works well for all OSs and file system types. Ranish is only beta, Mandrake's partitioner is too new (look at the history of bugs behind Partition Magic!). The basic problem is that there is no ISO, or any other, standard or organisation in charge of how disks should be partitioned - for example, Windows traditionally builds the partition tables in start cylinder number order, Unix/Linux traditionally builds them in creation time order. Fundamental ditfferences like that make interworking catastrophic. Because this whole area has just grown like Topsy, it is not well designed, and has been much klooged over the years to retain the required backwards compatibility. Therefore there are lots of gotchas. For a salutory education, just look at the error message listing in the back of the Partition Magic manual!. Mandrake has not yet published the error messages for its partitioner. So, yes, set up your hard disks with a good multi-OS and multi-file-system-type partitioner before you install. The only one I know that can be confidently trusted is Partition Magic. Yes, it does cost, but it's more than worth it. Partitioning is not just a one time job - you will be readjusting the partitioning, say, monthly, as your space demands grow. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Absolutely. With a disk that big, you may want to plan ahead. Assuming your computer isn't all kinds of cool (as in, able to boot past the 8GB limit) you'll want to make all your /boot partitions at the beginning of the disk, then your / (root) partitions, and maybe stick a single /home partition in the middle, to be shared across the multiple installations. It'll work better if you plan all this out beforehand, and make the partitions before you install. That way, you can just specify which partition becomes what when you install. In addition to sharing a /home filesystem, you can also share a swap partition between installs. Then, when you're done, you can setup a single LILO to boot all of them. It'll work if you just have each install LILO over the last one's LILO (on the MBR of the drive), and then boot the last one to be installed and fix LILO. I've not seen an installation program that'll give you that fine-grained control over the LILO setup. You'll have to do it by hand, unless you LIKE going through more than one boot prompt. If you need more help, just ask. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work?
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirk, Matt gives you good advice. I strongly recommend using Partition Magic exclusively for all your disk partitioning. Set up the new disk as LBA in your BIOS, and make sure that your choice of boot manager lets you boot over 8Gb (Boot Magic is OK and comes with Partition Magic). By using Boot Magic you won't need to bother with /boot partitions. Make your Linux partitions hdb5, 6, 8, 9, with hdb7 your swap partition. Depending upon your purpose, a common home partition is often a good idea, but only for Linux partitions sharing the same Linux distribution, and not for the first time user. Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? yes, it's possible. indeed, I have several linuxes in my home computer. suse, caldera, corel, and mdk. furthermore, they share the same swap partition. the only thig you should have in mind after instalation is that you can't use lilo for this, because lilo is very acoplated with the kernel. so, you'll have several kernels (one from each distro) but just one lilo... this will cause problems. so, either you use anoter thing to boot each linux (i'm using ntloader, from windows nt) and you put each lilo in the boot sector of each linux / or /boot partition (now that I think about, I have only one part for each linux, so I don't have to mind about this), either you use the same kernel in all the linux you have... and maybe, you can share /root, /home and maybe /var/spool from linux to lunix, just taking care of each one having the exactly same /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow... good luck -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Yes. However, I would recommend only using 4 linux installations of less than 5 gb each. By the time you get done partitioning and formatting, you will not have 20gb, more like 19gb. To take care of the lilo limitation of having all the boot files in the first 1000 cylinders of the disk, make your swap partition first, then one large extended partition with the rest of the disk. Inside the extended partition you can create 4 16mb partitions for /boot which will keep all your boot files at the front of the disk. Then you can divide up whats left into four partitions for the rest of your system (/ files which is everything but /boot) You could do a lot of other variations with partitions, one of which is to create one partition for /home but that means that your login config files will always be the same for each flavor of linux. This is good for some, but if you want to play with different window managers and other stuff like different X servers (accelerated X), then do not try to keep a common /home partition. Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Tom Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Well, it MAY be possible. But keep in mind that you'll need to have the kernel FOR EACH DISTRO within the first 1024 cylinders of the hard drive. John
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirkyes. Alan Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
You could do that, but it's easier to just use lilo for all of them. Lilo can boot any number of Linux partitions for you, so there's really no need to use the boot floppies. It's easy to do that; you can even have a single swap partition that they all share and just use different / partitions for each of them if you want. There really aren't any special considerations in doing this, except that it's probably easiest to just install LILO with the primary distribution and then have the others use that same lilo.conf. You can do this by having each other distribution mount that parition to "/maindist" or something and then ln -s /etc/lilo.conf to /maindist/etc/lilo.conf for the others. On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: | I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would | like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux | distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can | I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each | one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I | would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each | different distribution. Will this work? | | Thanks, | | Kirk | | | |vice versa | Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing | Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com | Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France -- "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
Kirk, I have my PC setup according to Tom's recommendations and it works great. I created around six of these 16Mb partitions at the beginning of the disk...this way I can always add more Linux distros in the future. Matt From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk? Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:17:38 -0700 Yes. However, I would recommend only using 4 linux installations of less than 5 gb each. By the time you get done partitioning and formatting, you will not have 20gb, more like 19gb. To take care of the lilo limitation of having all the boot files in the first 1000 cylinders of the disk, make your swap partition first, then one large extended partition with the rest of the disk. Inside the extended partition you can create 4 16mb partitions for /boot which will keep all your boot files at the front of the disk. Then you can divide up whats left into four partitions for the rest of your system (/ files which is everything but /boot) You could do a lot of other variations with partitions, one of which is to create one partition for /home but that means that your login config files will always be the same for each flavor of linux. This is good for some, but if you want to play with different window managers and other stuff like different X servers (accelerated X), then do not try to keep a common /home partition. Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Tom Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I would like to have Windoze on the 4.3, and use the 20 for multiple Linux distributions (for testing and writing purposes). Can this be done? Can I , say, have five 4 gig partitions, and put a different Linux on each one? If so, is there any special things to know when installing? I would ideally not want to use Lilo, but use a boot floppy for each different distribution. Will this work? Thanks, Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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On 5/04/00 17:17, Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Yes, they are both IDE. Kirk vice versa Translations - French to English, English to French | Technical Writing Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais | Redaction technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mcelhearn.com Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
M Thompson wrote: I have my PC setup according to Tom's recommendations and it works great. I created around six of these 16Mb partitions at the beginning of the disk...this way I can always add more Linux distros in the future. This mess is NOT necessary NOR what I advised you to do. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?
boot1 boot2 boot3 boot4 data1 data2 data3 data4 Well, that was my idea. With maybe a swap partition in the middle, or better yet, on the other drive (for better performance). As for knowing whether or not your computer can boot past 1024 cylinders, I know of no better way than trial and error. Ron made a good point: program versions may vary wildly between distributions, so separate home directories may be better. I'd do it, just so that it's easier to work on a particular document without rebooting, or remembering mount points. Also, if you're not really doing much with Linux other than making a preference, it's probably a good idea to not share any directories between distributions. Like I said earlier, you can use one LILO prompt to boot all 4. It takes a little extra work; you basically have to copy the "image=" sections from the other three lilo.confs to one (we'll say the first installation). You'd also have to mount those /boot filesystems, so that LILO can find the kernels when it installs itself. Then, adjust the "root=" and image name, and you're done. Envision a lilo.conf like so: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map prompt timeout=100 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=mdk root=/dev/hdb9 read-only image=/mnt/deb-boot/vmlinuz label=deb root=/dev/hdb10 read-only image=/mnt/suse-boot/vmlinuz label=suse root=/dev/hdb11 read-only image=/mnt/caldera-boot/vmlinuz label=cal root=/dev/hdb12 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda See what I mean? -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
