Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:04 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community. I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2 partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf). But this is just me firing shots in the dark :) It is quite easy. During installation of 10.0, you will be asked a question of where to install the bootloader. The choices should be 1) on MBR 2) on / (root) partition, or 3) do not install. You want to choose number 2, install to root partition. actually in this situation the best thing to do is simply install the bootloader to a floppy and boot the third Mandrake installation from there. It works flawlessly this way, and also keeps from getting the bootloader stuff already on the hard disk all messed up. Saves on user stress as well. -- Mark If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community. I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2 partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf). But this is just me firing shots in the dark :) pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community. I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2 partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf). But this is just me firing shots in the dark :) It is quite easy. During installation of 10.0, you will be asked a question of where to install the bootloader. The choices should be 1) on MBR 2) on / (root) partition, or 3) do not install. You want to choose number 2, install to root partition. You will temporarily not be able to boot into 10.0 until you go back into 9.2 and adjust your lilo there. Make note of the device for the root partition for 10.0 (something like /dev/hda6) Then when the installation finishes, it will reboot and you will get your old lilo menu. boot to 9.2 and then edit your /etc/lilo.conf file. You should see a stanza in there for winxp that looks like this: other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda Add another one for 10.0 that looks like this: other=/dev/hdax label=Mandrake10 table=/dev/hda replace the /dev/hdax with the actual root partition of your 10.0 install. now run lilo to effect the changes and when you reboot, you should see an entry for 10.0. When you swelect it, the 10.0 lilo menu should come up with a choice to boot 10.0. I hope I didn't make any mistakes, but the others on this list will quickly correct me if I did. HTH. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and thenmerge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf? Can't you just let 10.0buildLILO to the MBR? When I build 9.2 it found all my bootable devices so I would thinkthat during the the 10.0 install that the process would find window/9.2/10.0 and build the boot record accordingly and even if it didn't you could then just take the conf file you backed up and merge it with the one 10.0 built. This is totally a guess on my part beinga very newbie and not having loaded 10.0 but it seems logicalI know I shouldn't trust logic but what the he**. Had I been installing 10.0 this is the choice I would have used. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04 09:05:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote: Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community. I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2 partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf). But this is just me firing shots in the dark :) It is quite easy.During installation of 10.0, you will be asked a question of where to install the bootloader.The choices should be 1) on MBR 2) on / (root) partition, or 3) do not install. You want to choose number 2, install to root partition. You will temporarily not be able to boot into 10.0 until you go back into 9.2 and adjust your lilo there.Make note of the device for the root partition for 10.0 (something like /dev/hda6) Then when the installation finishes, it will reboot and you will get your old lilo menu.boot to 9.2 and then edit your /etc/lilo.conf file.You should see a stanza in there for winxp that looks like this: other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda Add another one for 10.0 that looks like this: other=/dev/hdax label="Mandrake10" table=/dev/hda replace the /dev/hdax with the actual root partition of your 10.0 install. now run lilo to effect the changes and when you reboot, you should see an entry for 10.0.When you swelect it, the 10.0 lilo menu should come up with a choice to boot 10.0. I hope I didn't make any mistakes, but the others on this list will quickly correct me if I did.HTH. -- /g
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:49 am, Steve Kaufman wrote: Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and then merge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf? Can't you just let 10.0 build LILO to the MBR? When I build 9.2 it found all my bootable devices so I would think that during the the 10.0 install that the process would find window/9.2/10.0 and build the boot record accordingly and even if it didn't you could then just take the conf file you backed up and merge it with the one 10.0 built. This is totally a guess on my part being a very newbie and not having loaded 10.0 but it seems logical I know I shouldn't trust logic but what the he**. Had I been installing 10.0 this is the choice I would have used. Yes there are ways to use this, in fact it is much easier using GrUB than with LILO, but as this is a newbie list, I chose to instruct in getting a 10.0 installation triple booted with a minimum amount of fuss and learning/research. These other methods require a little more planning and advanced knowledge about how the kernel boots. The instructions to use one instance of LILO or GrUB exist all over the place, and any enterprising user could find what they need if they know what they are doing. So, in the interest of getting the OP going ASAP, this does the job. If he later wants to go do the required learning to simplify the setup, he can do that when he is ready. The other nice thing about the method I noted is that you can then install any OS on that spare partition and never have to update the main lilo.conf again. Always chainloading the boot will let whatever OS you install on that spare partition boot without additional work. This is the method I use on my spare partition that I use for running cooker or experimenting with other distros. I can forever do clean installs and just install the bootloader to the root partition, making the first reboot easy. If you consolidate the bootloaders, every time you install something new, you have to go back and boot the controlling OS and edit the bootloader config. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:49 am, Steve Kaufman wrote: Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and then merge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf? Can't you just let 10.0 build LILO to the MBR? When I build 9.2 it found all my bootable devices so I would think that during the the 10.0 install that the process would find window/9.2/10.0 and build the boot record accordingly and even if it didn't you could then just take the conf file you backed up and merge it with the one 10.0 built. This is totally a guess on my part being a very newbie and not having loaded 10.0 but it seems logical I know I shouldn't trust logic but what the he**. Had I been installing 10.0 this is the choice I would have used. Yes there are ways to use this, in fact it is much easier using GrUB than with LILO, but as this is a newbie list, I chose to instruct in getting a 10.0 installation triple booted with a minimum amount of fuss and learning/research. These other methods require a little more planning and advanced knowledge about how the kernel boots. The instructions to use one instance of LILO or GrUB exist all over the place, and any enterprising user could find what they need if they know what they are doing. So, in the interest of getting the OP going ASAP, this does the job. If he later wants to go do the required learning to simplify the setup, he can do that when he is ready. The other nice thing about the method I noted is that you can then install any OS on that spare partition and never have to update the main lilo.conf again. Always chainloading the boot will let whatever OS you install on that spare partition boot without additional work. This is the method I use on my spare partition that I use for running cooker or experimenting with other distros. I can forever do clean installs and just install the bootloader to the root partition, making the first reboot easy. If you consolidate the bootloaders, every time you install something new, you have to go back and boot the controlling OS and edit the bootloader config. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks Greg I did not think of that. I was just thinking that one prompt for what I wanted to load was enough but your explanation makes sense and is probably less risky and more flexible than mine. Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:55:14 -0800, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? Option on the CD. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? Option on the CD. Thanks. I'll definitely add this to my notes... eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a windows OS, I insert the XOSL floppy and restore it! Then i am on XOSL as before! Cool! I wonder if Mandrake could include a similar restore facility. It does. You can run the Mandrake CD in rescue mode and it will rewrite Lilo to the MBR if it has been overwritten. You can then manually add boot options for Windows 98, XP, etc. I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
Miark wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a windows OS, I insert the XOSL floppy and restore it! Then i am on XOSL as before! Cool! I wonder if Mandrake could include a similar restore facility. It does. You can run the Mandrake CD in rescue mode and it will rewrite Lilo to the MBR if it has been overwritten. You can then manually add boot options for Windows 98, XP, etc. I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? Miark windows entries are restored too if i remember correctly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:54 am, Ramin wrote: You are right. I forgot to explain this case. Actually my case was even more complicated since i wanted to reinstall Windows XP too. Once during the installation i used Mandrake partition utility to define partitions and format them but quit the installation before installing the packages (well it was a waste of time since i had to do it again later any way). Then i installed Windows XP and later Mandrake. This time i did not have to partition the disks but i had to format the first primary partition from Linux to FAT to install DrDOs there. This was because it is impossible to fool Windows XP by hiding FAT partitions: it always sees them and want to pick the first one as drive C:/. However, Windows XP does not need to boot from C:. It will happily default to booting from D: if you specify that drive as the installation target. Windows 98, OTOH, is not so versatile. You will need to have Windows 98 installed in the primary partition on the first hard drive in order to boot with it. I would suggest creating a FAT partition on the first hard drive and formatting and installing Windows 98. Next, install Windows XP on a new D: partition, it will overwrite the MBR but add a boot line to the boot menu for both Windows 98 and Windows XP. Finally, reinstall Mandrake and it should add Lilo which will happily add all Linux boot options as well as Windows XP and 98 to its boot menu. With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a windows OS, I insert the XOSL floppy and restore it! Then i am on XOSL as before! Cool! I wonder if Mandrake could include a similar restore facility. It does. You can run the Mandrake CD in rescue mode and it will rewrite Lilo to the MBR if it has been overwritten. You can then manually add boot options for Windows 98, XP, etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with Ranish partition manager and i can install windows2k on the third partition while the first two partitions are FAT or NTFS! I however do not use hidden fat (it may work though, but i don´t remember what was the problem). I record the first two partitions as linux type using RPM even though they are windows type! This way is guaranteed to work for me. Windows98 is older and i think hiding FAT partitions is very likely to work. So if it was me, the first way i would try is using Mandrake partition manager to hide the first two windows partitions and write the setting to the MBR. Then i would start installing Windows98. I should repeat that i have not tried this myself before, but the Mandrake 9.2 partition manager seems very reliable (it was not the case for Mandrake 9.0 to my opinion). Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a quick search on google and found this page: http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that it sees the second partition as c: Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:34:48 -0500 Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with Ranish partition manager and i can install windows2k on the third partition while the first two partitions are FAT or NTFS! I however do not use hidden fat (it may work though, but i don´t remember what was the problem). I record the first two partitions as linux type using RPM even though they are windows type! This way is guaranteed to work for me. Windows98 is older and i think hiding FAT partitions is very likely to work. So if it was me, the first way i would try is using Mandrake partition manager to hide the first two windows partitions and write the setting to the MBR. Then i would start installing Windows98. I should repeat that i have not tried this myself before, but the Mandrake 9.2 partition manager seems very reliable (it was not the case for Mandrake 9.0 to my opinion). Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 09:45 pm, Joe wrote: A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run under XP, havn't tried it under wine...yet). Did a quick search on google and found this page: http://www.vamos.de/english/bootman2.html#dos It is an OS2 tool that can hide a primary partition from windows so that it sees the second partition as c: Is there a way to do this with lilo or grub? Is there an easier way? TIA for suggestions. Joe. I used to do it ... first start blank then install 98 then install winxp pro or win 2000 then linux.. linux and windows will show up on the lilo boot when you boot windows it will take you to the nt loader and you can boot 98 from there. I think its not possible to boot 98 in the middle how you explained it. windows likes to install to the mbr ;) -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 21:51:48 up 1 day, 3:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] triple boot
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 01:21, ivette brusselmans wrote: Have installed W2k mandrake 9.0 still have 15 GB unpartitioned space on my HDD would like to install redhat 8.1 first and be able to choose from 3 OS in lilo later want to install debian woody and be able to choose from the 4 OS in lilo what do I add to my present lilo configuration? What you might want to do is to let RH 8.1 have it's own little boot partition - and write only to the first sector of that boot partition - then you can have the MDK lilo start the RH lilo - the reason I'd do this is because you may run across an issue where you need to be able to change params prior to kernel load...either which - else a good way of doing it would be to have an RH 8.1 bootdisk - then you wouldn't need to muck around with the MDK lilo (you could endanger some things). Are you going to install RH 8.0, or RH 8.1beta (actually version 8.092)? -- Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:00:00 +1100 8:00am up 7 days, 17:43, 4 users, load average: 1.39, 1.10, 0.62 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- There once was a Sailor who looked through a glass And spied a fair mermaid with scales on her... island. Where seagulls flew over their nest. She combed the long hair which hung over her... shoulders. And caused her to tickle and itch. The sailor cried out There's a beautiful... mermaid. A sittin' out there on the rocks. The crew came a running, all grabbing their... glasses. And crowded four deep to the rail. All eager to share in this fine piece of... news. ... Throw out a line and we'll lasso her... flippers. And soon we will certainly find If mermaids are better before or be... brave My dear fellows, The captain cried out. And cursing with spleen. This song may be dull, but it's certainly clean. -- The Clean Song, Oscar Brandt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Triple boot? Solved, with great thanks to Philomena!
You are very, very welcome ! :-) philomena Kipling Cooper wrote: Thank you so very much!!! Your very helpful repley helped solve two problems: 1 Grub does not reinstall after Win95 reinstall Solution: make /boot/grub/install.sh executable 2 Can not quintuple boot Solution: supply the correct kernel path, as you detailed. * philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [31 Mar 01 07:12]: In this sample, the menu choice will be listed as "linux", the kernel will boot from hda5, and the root partition is in hda15. The (hd0,4) entry sort of starts counting from zero as 1, so that 4 partitions up from "zero" is hda5. This was the critical step. Caldera, Debian, and LM all use different kernels. Thanks you! Since I install grub during the installation process, I haven't had to install the package on its own - is that causing your error ? I reinstalled Win 95, and then coudl not get grub reinstalled, but knowing WHAT installed grub was the missing link in figuring out HOW to re-install grub. Thank you again! -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
* Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15 Mar 01 22:51]: I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately Hi there! Could you give me a little more detail on how to do that, please? When I try to run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' I get: /usr/share/grub/i386-mandrake/stage1: Not found. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
Hi, Here's what I do - edit the file menu.lst which is in the /boot/grub subdir. There should be an entry there that looks something like this: title linux kernel(hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda15 In this sample, the menu choice will be listed as "linux", the kernel will boot from hda5, and the root partition is in hda15. The (hd0,4) entry sort of starts counting from zero as 1, so that 4 partitions up from "zero" is hda5. When I installed, I installed Mandrake 7.2 first, since that is stable, and had it install GRUB to the MBR. You can also do this by running install.sh in the /boot/grub subdir. Then, for each subsequent OS install, I directed the installs to NOT load a bootloader, and just create a boot disk. Then, I went back into 7.2, cut and pasted the existing 7.2 boot entry, and edited each entry for where to find the boot partitions for each OS. So, I have 5 different OS installs, and grub handles it all very nicely. Since I install grub during the installation process, I haven't had to install the package on its own - is that causing your error ? I know that this can be set this up by also using only one boot partition, and specifying different names for the kernel files. But, I had no luck whatsoever doing that, so just went back to this method (having different boot partitions for each distributions install). Hope this helps... philomena Kipling Cooper wrote: * Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15 Mar 01 22:51]: I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately Hi there! Could you give me a little more detail on how to do that, please? When I try to run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' I get: /usr/share/grub/i386-mandrake/stage1: Not found. -- Good Hunting! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00)
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
Additonal Note. If you are adding Windows 2000 to the mix, it must reside below 2 gigs of the first hard drive. On Fri, 16 March 2001, Romanator wrote: michael wrote: I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). Make sure windows is on first. -m- Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste Windows 95 or Windows 98 first, then WIndows NT4 and any other OS. Roman Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste Get System Commander 2000. It's a super boot loader and partitioning tool. Roman
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
michael wrote: I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). Make sure windows is on first. -m- Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste Windows 95 or Windows 98 first, then WIndows NT4 and any other OS. Roman
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
Can I ask how you folks got the second (and beyond) linux distributions installed? Everytime I've tried that I've run into problems because the new distribution sees the old distributions root, boot, usr, etc, and refuses to create new ones. I have a windows/mandrake dual boot system with about 10 gigs on allocated disk space. I'd like to try to get Slackware or Debian installed in that empty space. --- philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one machine - 4 linux and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I just set up a different boot partition for each OS, and use grub as the bootloader. I did the partitioning first using Partition Magic. cheers, philomena = ~~~ Peter Smith, Cambridge, MA, USA Various bookmarks = http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jaded Chat about games, movies and tv = http://jadedspub.com ~~~ "They were playing Wagner. It's the most fun I've had in about six months" -Tyr Anasazi __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
I haven't run into anything like that, possibly since I have setup the partitions before I do the installs. For example, I have my machine setup with about 16 different partitions - when I installed any of the distros, I made sure to use the expert or custom mode, so that I could specifiy the mount points. I only mount the partitions that the install should see, so that distro isn't even aware of the others. This may not be the most efficient method, but it does work. Right now, I have Mandrake 7.2 and the 8.0 beta, SuSe 7.1 and the latest RedHat beta, Wolverine. Each has its own /boot, root and /home partition - I haven't tried sharing any partitions. I have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately So, I would recommend repartioning your extra space and then see what happens. Cheers, Philomena At 11:59 AM 3/15/2001 -0800, you wrote: Can I ask how you folks got the second (and beyond) linux distributions installed? Everytime I've tried that I've run into problems because the new distribution sees the old distributions root, boot, usr, etc, and refuses to create new ones. I have a windows/mandrake dual boot system with about 10 gigs on allocated disk space. I'd like to try to get Slackware or Debian installed in that empty space. --- philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one machine - 4 linux and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I just set up a different boot partition for each OS, and use grub as the bootloader. I did the partitioning first using Partition Magic. cheers, philomena = ~~~ Peter Smith, Cambridge, MA, USA Various bookmarks = http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jaded Chat about games, movies and tv = http://jadedspub.com ~~~ "They were playing Wagner. It's the most fun I've had in about six months" -Tyr Anasazi __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
good question...I'd like to know this also... as I'd like to add redhat 6.0 to the current 20 gig HD /root 5 gig /home 10 gig mandrake /swap 128 meg have about 4.9 gig left over for redhat Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste -- Registered Linux User: 167369 = http://www.kompukit.com = [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am S+S=12pm-12am) (US EST)
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). Make sure windows is on first. -m- Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one machine - 4 linux and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I just set up a different boot partition for each OS, and use grub as the bootloader. I did the partitioning first using Partition Magic. cheers, philomena Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
There shouldn't be anything wrong with what you propose. Just make sure that you have a different partition for each OS (of course) and that you set up your bootloader (LILO, GRUB, etc.) properly so that you can boot all three OSs. I have even heard about people having several distros installed but having only one /home partition that is shared amongst the distros. That way your user settings carry across distros. I haven't tried it myself so I have no ideas on what problems (if any) it could cause. On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:30, Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
