Tri-booting

[cage47]

I've got an existing WIndows 3.1 (hda1) and Mandrake 8 (hda2 & 3) system running fine. Now I've got a 2 gig drive (hdb) that I want to install Debian onto. So far it is not going good. Anyone have something like this working. I'm fairly adept at setting up the systems (had debian running on the backup DX-4) But just can't seem to get it to load correctly. The idea is to have it load onto hdb and then manually edit Mandrake's lilo to boot Mandrake,Debian,Windows. It almost worked but didn't want to finish loading. Gotta check one last thing but wondering if any one else has done something like this and how does their configurations look.

[Linuxcool]

When you install debian on hdb, you could install its lilo to the root partition and then add this to the mandrake lilo:
other=/dev/hdbX
label=debian
table=/dev/hdb


In place of the ' X ', put the correct partition number. I'm not sure if the last line ( table=/dev/hdb ) is really needed. I hope this works.