On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:58, Bryan Murdock wrote: > I've never tried this before, but I've got a disk with basically three > partitions on it, one for Redhat, a linux swap partition, and one for > Mandrake. Crazy, I know, but basically I wanted some room to play with > different distros and stuff. > > Currently, I have a boot floppy to get Mandrake to boot, and Redhat > (installed first) boots from grub. Is there a way to have grub boot > Mandrake too?
Your questions look like they've been answered, but I'll throw out some related information. It's actually possible to use Xnest and chroot to run multiple distros simultaneously. You have to play with the xauthority permissions to work right, but essentially it's a matter of launching Xnest (with a parameter of :1 or :2, etc) and then chroot to where you've mounted your other linux distro, and run "export DISPLAY=localhost:0" and then run something like startx. You may have to mount /proc once you've chrooted by doing: 'mount -t proc none /proc' Of course you can't change any device drivers or network configurations while inside the chrooted directory. This is actually how gentoo is installed, and I know of several people who've bootstrapped debian that way. I myself installed (somewhat unsuccessfully; I don't recommend it) rh 9 on a box while rh 8 was running by creating a chrooted directory in which I could run apt and apt-get'ed the whole system. Michael > > Thanks, > > Bryan > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
