I have an older PC with two hard drives installed, both 1GB, can I load RedHat onto one drive and Mandrake 8.1 on the other without running into problems with either. I now have RedHat loaded on the master drive and I selected the slave drive as the swap file because of space limitations. I would like to keep RedHat on the master and load Mandrake on the slave.
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RedHat on one HDD, Mandrake on the other?
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Hi,
That should be no problem at all. The file /etc/fstab controls what a linux system mounts by default and you can make sure that there is nothing from /dev/hda in the mandrake one and nothing from /dev/hdb in the redhat one. The only difficulty is likely to be the bootloader. If you are using lilo in the master boot record then you'll need to create a combined /etc/lilo.conf that includes image blocks for each of the systems and rewrite that with '/sbin/lilo -v' as root. For example :
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.10
label=redhat
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
label=mandrake
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
These are just examples - you should have the correct kernel image name and corresponding '/' root partition for your actual redhat and mandrake.
Hope this helps
That should be no problem at all. The file /etc/fstab controls what a linux system mounts by default and you can make sure that there is nothing from /dev/hda in the mandrake one and nothing from /dev/hdb in the redhat one. The only difficulty is likely to be the bootloader. If you are using lilo in the master boot record then you'll need to create a combined /etc/lilo.conf that includes image blocks for each of the systems and rewrite that with '/sbin/lilo -v' as root. For example :
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.10
label=redhat
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
label=mandrake
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
These are just examples - you should have the correct kernel image name and corresponding '/' root partition for your actual redhat and mandrake.
Hope this helps
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