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wjohnson
10-16-2001, 09:46 PM
I need help installing a second Linux distro. I currently have Win98/Win2000/Mandrake8.2 installed, and I also want to install Suse7.1. Can anyone walk me through this? I've already tried but I'm obviously doing something wrong. I'm a Linux virgin here so please be gentle with the techno-lingo. Thanx.
scanez
10-16-2001, 10:16 PM
What have you already tried? It should be no different that a normal installation of SUSE, just put it in its own partition.

SC
wjohnson
10-16-2001, 10:23 PM
Originally posted by scanez:
<STRONG>What have you already tried? It should be no different that a normal installation of SUSE, just put it in its own partition.

SC</STRONG>
After installing Suse, at reboot I would only get an option to boot into Suse or Windows, but no Mandrake. It's as if Suse's Lilo overwrites Mandrakes Lilo. How do I get all OS's to show up in Lilo?
bobtcowboy
10-16-2001, 10:39 PM
Originally posted by wjohnson:
<STRONG>
After installing Suse, at reboot I would only get an option to boot into Suse or Windows, but no Mandrake. It's as if Suse's Lilo overwrites Mandrakes Lilo. How do I get all OS's to show up in Lilo?</STRONG>

You'll have to edit lilo.conf by hand... it shouldn't be too hard...
open up lilo.conf, copy whats already there for your suse entry and change it to the relevent mandrake info

if you need more help you might try searching the archives

Bill
bdg1983
10-17-2001, 02:53 AM
Just add another stanza to /etc/lilo.conf on your SuSE system.

default=mandrake

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-modular
label = mandrake
root = /dev/hda6
vga = 274
read-only
append = "quiet"

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-modular
label = suse
root = /dev/hda7
vga = 274
read-only
append = "quiet"

Rerun /sbin/lilo to write the changes.
wjohnson
10-17-2001, 05:24 PM
Thanks for all the help. It took a while but I finally figured it out. :D