Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:38:55 +0530 | From | Narsimha Reddy CH <> | Subject | Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC |
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Thanks a lot for your help. It really worked with disk driud. It cleverly managed the name conflicts of lables i.e. for first installation the root is "/" and for the second installation the root lable is "/1". After editing the /etc/lilo.conf of first installation and updating the MBR with /sbin/lilo appropriately, I can boot both of them.
Regards, - Narsimha
Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote:
>Hi All, > > I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh >8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in >partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/hda7 ( >/usr) , >/dev/hda8 ( /tmp),... /dev/hda11 etc. > > But how can I install the rh 8.0 in partitions say /dev/hda12 >( as "/" ) ... etc ?? Since the installer won't allow as there >already exists a "/" partition for the rh 7.2 and tries to override >it with the root partition of rh 8.0. So I tried giving a different >lable to the root partition of rh 8.0 say /root1 and other partitions >as /root1/usr, /root1/home, /root1/tmp etc. But here also the installer >is looking for the partition named "/" and without that the installation >is not happening. > > >Please give your suggestions on how to resolve this problem. > > >At present my partition table with single installation (rh 7.2) is, > >[root@creddy-pc root]# fdisk -l > >Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16 >/dev/hda2 262 2434 17454622+ 5 Extended >/dev/hda5 262 522 2096451 6 FAT16 >/dev/hda6 523 653 1052226 83 Linux >/dev/hda7 654 1175 4192933+ 83 Linux >/dev/hda8 1176 1371 1574338+ 83 Linux >/dev/hda9 1372 1436 522081 82 Linux swap >/dev/hda10 1437 1501 522081 83 Linux >/dev/hda11 1502 1566 522081 83 Linux >[root@creddy-pc root]# > > >TIA, >- Narsimha Reddy CH >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > >
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