Hi all... I've set up a couple of dual boot W$/SuSE systems before. But I plan on next weekend trying a SuSE/Mandrake system. I've never did a Linux/Linux system before. Is there anything special I should watch out for? Does it matter which one I install first? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:10:10 +0100 James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@epost.de> wrote:
Hi all...
I've set up a couple of dual boot W$/SuSE systems before. But I plan on next weekend trying a SuSE/Mandrake system. I've never did a Linux/Linux system before. Is there anything special I should watch out for? Does it matter which one I install first?
Hi, Jim, I'm running SuSE 9.1 (x 2), Ubunto, Debian, Libranet (and an obscure, insecure, buggy and crash-prone OS by some computing science wannabee) on my machine (2x HD, 160gb & 80gb). Apart from the last mentionee (that apparently wants to be the only OS on the drives and/or planet), no problems, except to use your main (in my case SuSE 9.1 on hda3) system's boot loader (GRUB here) to allow selection of the various OS partitions. BTW, if you want to (I have to) install any flavour of M$ (you can any flavour you want as they're all the same xxxx flavour!), you will need to re-run your Linux boot loader to re-write the MBR. I haven't tried SuSE/Mandrake as a combination for at least two years, but the last time I had no problems at all. Have fun. Terence
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:10 am, James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all...
I've set up a couple of dual boot W$/SuSE systems before. But I plan on next weekend trying a SuSE/Mandrake system. I've never did a Linux/Linux system before. Is there anything special I should watch out for? Does it matter which one I install first?
I usually have several distros installed at one time. The main problem I have run into, is when a distro uses the partition label instead of of the /dev/xxx to mount partitions. If two installs each create a partition labeled '/', then the system doesn't know which one to use and, IIRC, will use the first one it finds, which can screw things up. After the install, I always check fstab and grub menu.lst(or menu.conf depending on distro and version) to make sure everything is pointing to/mounting /dev/xxx and not labels. I don't use a separate /boot for each distro. '/boot' is part of '/'. I don't install the boot loader with each distro. I have a favorite distro that I use almost all the time. That is the distro I install grub from and that is the menu.lst/menu.conf I modify to boot the other distros. Doug
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:10 am, James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all...
I've set up a couple of dual boot W$/SuSE systems before. But I plan on next weekend trying a SuSE/Mandrake system. I've never did a Linux/Linux system before. Is there anything special I should watch out for? Does it matter which one I install first?
Thanks,
JIM Jim, are penguins territorial birds??? Might want to watch out for feathers flying around.
Richard -- Old age ain't for Sissies!
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:56:58 -0600 Richard <ratcheson@earthlink.net> wrote:
Jim, are penguins territorial birds??? Might want to watch out for feathers flying around.
If they are territorial, Mandrake (French based) will quickly give in, agree with SuSE (German based) and produce SuSE support material for as long as is profitable for them. No (real) conflict! ; ) Terence
Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:56:58 -0600 Richard <ratcheson@earthlink.net> wrote:
Jim, are penguins territorial birds??? Might want to watch out for feathers flying around.
If they are territorial, Mandrake (French based) will quickly give in, agree with SuSE (German based) and produce SuSE support material for as long as is profitable for them. No (real) conflict! ; )
Of course, everything they produce will be non-standard. ;-)
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