On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Tim Duggan wrote:
I have a box with suse and debian which I set up much like Ole suggests. My /boot partition has subdirectories for each distro where the kernels live and each distro mounts it the same way (as /boot). During an install make sure you don't format the partition and the install should dump its kernel into /boot. So if I install RH, it will be the only kernel in /boot and I would move it (and whatever else necessary) to /boot/rh/. I do keep lilo.conf in a directory called /boot/lilo/ and the file /etc/lilo.conf is a link to it in each distro (as Ole mentioned). The only thing I've yet to automate is the kernel makefile to dump the appropriate kernel into the right directory. I have it done for SuSE, but haven't gotten around to doing it for Deb. Since I almost never do # make bzlilo I've been ok but I'm sure it'll bite me one day if I don't fix it (I know, it's so trivial I should do it and be done with it).:-)
I'm glad to hear that my ideas actually work in the real world. I might even set my system up like this one day, when I have enough HD space for more than one distro. Regards Ole -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq