Installing Linux on extended partition (logical drive)
Hi all, For those of you who are interested in installing Linux on extended partition (or in MS terms we call it logical drive), I've successfully do it on installing Suse92 on hda10, where there is already MS Windows, and Mandrake. Here's the brief steps: 1. Install Windows (with 2 partitions in my case) 2. Install Mandrake on its own partition (with 5 partitions in my case, with 1 partition I call /data --> hda10) 3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax), -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label="Suse92" root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only Modify the above lines that suits your environment. Run lilo -v to see if there's any error. If there isn't, you good to go. Reboot. You will see in the LILO menu that there's Suse92 entry. Choose it, and.... Voila! You've got Suse92! You dont even bother to create swap partition, Suse will use the swap from Mandrake. I've made an artikel about it in http://linux2.arinet.org (Indonesian) HTH. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 09:46:07 up 1:28, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 04:21, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax)
Since you're not actually using it, but using Mandrake's installation of lilo you might as well select to not install a boot loader at all.
, -- install LILO on the root partition of /hda10, -- format hda10 with any filesystem as long as Mandrake can read it. Suse will reboot once we finish the first installation step. 4. When rebooted, go into Mandrake. Modify /etc/lilo.conf with this: image=/data/boot/vmlinuz label="Suse92" root=/dev/hda10 initrd= /data/boot/initrd vga=788 read-only
For grub, it would be something like title SUSE 9.2 kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 vga=788 splash=silent desktop resume=<your swap partition> showopts initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 10:34 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 04:21, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
3. Install Suse92 on /data. This is the caveat: -- choose LILO (you can use grub too, but I don't know yet the syntax)
Since you're not actually using it, but using Mandrake's installation of lilo you might as well select to not install a boot loader at all.
Ah, interesting. Thanks Anders. I'll try it on another box. I tried to map the Suse Lilo using chain, using entry like in the Windows boot chain loader, but failed. So, I use mandrake lilo. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 11:06:20 up 2:48, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key
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