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SubjectRe: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC
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
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Narsimha Reddy CH
Storage Area Networking, HCL Technologies
Contact +91-044 2372 8366 ext 1128

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