finlay Posted April 23, 2003 Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 Can anyone explain how I add another Linux? I'm dual booting Mandrake 9.1 with Windows but I have a copy of SuSe 8.2 which I'd like to run. I have a 60Gig HDD with 7 Gigs of Windows and all the rest Mandrake and a 6 Gig slave HDD with a small Win partition and the bulk given over to backup of Mandrake. I'd like to repartition hda and give SuSe about 6 Gigs. How to do? Finlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 23, 2003 Report Share Posted April 23, 2003 Check out this post where I had the same questions.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted April 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I see. I think. So all I have to do is create partitions for suse and mount them on /suse /, suse/home, suse/usr etc. The problem is with lilo not being able to boot suse. so either use grub or boot SuSe from a floppy or create my suse partitions under mnt/. Does that seem a fair summary? Finlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 I'm not sure about the lilo doesn't boot suse, why is that? In my case, I had two versions of Mandrake and used my older mandrake's lilo (mandrake1) to boot either mandrake. By using fstab to mount mandrake2's / partition, I could then reference it within mandrake1's lilo.conf file. Should be able to do the same with suse unless lilo simply doesn't work with suse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Lilo does work for suse and suse provided lilo rpms. Now, whether a mdk lilo will boot a suse. I don't know? This link is for the animated lilo, but I post it just to show "It should still be possible for you to install these boot screens on your computer if you start by installing the patched version of LILO provided by SuSE" http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/help.html I've never installed suse, but I'd think it would be like any other distro and during install would still select a / /home The /mnt/suse or /suse and /suse/home is to mount the suse filesystem within mandrake which has nothing to do with installing suse or booting to suse. Your biggest concern is how to resize mandrake and not lose data. This is if understand correctly that mandrake takes up the rest of the drive. I've chosen the resize option in diskdrake and it says all data will be lost, so....can you post the results of df -h in a terminal? Because you're going to have to bkup a partition>resize>restore data to partition, some of which will have to be done at init 1 or from a windows partition program that supports ext3 if you're using ext3. What kind of fs's are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted April 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 This is the result of df -h: [root@localhost fin]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 1012M 90M 923M 9% / /dev/hda6 23M 2.4M 20M 11% /boot /dev/hdb5 4.7G 3.1G 1.4G 70% /extra /dev/hda8 21G 1.3G 19G 7% /home /dev/hda1 7.8G 1.7G 6.1G 22% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdb2 1.3G 359M 965M 28% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda9 27G 1.7G 25G 7% /usr /dev/hda10 565M 121M 445M 22% /var And yes, I have a problem since I considered using Partition Magic to resize and create partitions, and it doesn't (well, not the version I have) handle reiserfs - the fs I'm using. So, okay, I back up and reinstall Mandrake after resizing my partitions. Then I install SuSe in the new partitions. How do I get lilo to list both of these and Windows? Sorry if I'm being thick here. (maybe a Windows bootloader like BootMagic would do the job, but I feel that would be cheating :-)) Finlay Finlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 You could consider getting a copy of VMWare, then install SuSE within Mandrake or Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 Lilo will detect Windows and Mandrake at install. You'll only have to add SuSe after you install it. The easiest way is to use diskdrake to tell you where the suse partitions are ,hda8 hda9 for example. Then tell diskdrake a mount point, for example /mnt/suse for suse's /, then tell diskdrake you are done and it'll ask if you want to write the changes to /etc/fstab, say yes, then tell diskdrake to mount /mnt/suse. Open a filemanager and browse to /mnt/suse/boot and cp the /mnt/suse/boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x to mandrakes /boot (making sure it has a diff name than what you already have in mandrakes /boot). Then edit mandrakes /etc/lilo.conf to point to suse's /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x>run lilo -v and your done. To edit lilo.conf just copy the existing mandrake section and edit the paths, vmlinuz, and append's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlay Posted April 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2003 Fantastic! Thank you very much. :D Finlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brkville42NY Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 it'd be like heaven with a keyboard... OUT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I've never installed suse, but I'd think it would be like any other distro and during install would still select a / /home You sure about that :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I've never installed suse, but I'd think it would be like any other distro and during install would still select a / /home You sure about that :unsure: look at the date ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I've never installed suse, but I'd think it would be like any other distro and during install would still select a / /home You sure about that :unsure: look at the date ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 it'd be like heaven with a keyboard... OUT with that said, Dude are you just going through old post and posting crap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 it'd be like heaven with a keyboard... OUT with that said, Dude are you just going through old post and posting crap? :lol: looks like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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