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| Nicholas Davey 2002-10-02, 3:25 pm |
| Hello, I just wanted to know if it was possible to dual boot multiple
distros, such as perhaps Mandrake and SuSE. Thanks for your time
Nick
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| Jon Portnoy 2002-10-02, 3:25 pm |
| In article <nVHm9.207$zt6.29855@read1.cgocable.net>, Nicholas Davey wrote:
> Hello, I just wanted to know if it was possible to dual boot multiple
> distros, such as perhaps Mandrake and SuSE. Thanks for your time
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> Nick
Quite possible. Just like dual-booting any other OS. You just need to make
sure your lilo/grub configuration is set up for the right kernel and root
device.
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Jon Portnoy
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"Nicholas Davey" <ndavey3@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
news:nVHm9.207$zt6.29855@read1.cgocable.net...
> Hello, I just wanted to know if it was possible to dual boot multiple
> distros, such as perhaps Mandrake and SuSE. Thanks for your time
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> Nick
Very possible. Like Jon said or if multibooting isn't your bag check out
vmware and you can run multiple OS's at the same time without booting out of
one and into another. It's not free though, at least not legally free.
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| Richard Adams 2002-10-02, 3:25 pm |
| In article <nVHm9.207$zt6.29855@read1.cgocable.net>, "Nicholas Davey"
<ndavey3@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Hello, I just wanted to know if it was possible to dual boot multiple
> distros, such as perhaps Mandrake and SuSE. Thanks for your time
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> Nick
I have 40 different disk partitions on this machine alone, if i wanted to
i could boot 21 differnt lilo configurations, (AFAIK, 21 is the MAX in
lilo).
So yes of course you can. It may prove a little awsome to configure them
all via lilo but it can be done, see my home-page for a sample lilo.conf
mutiple boot system configuration file.
Its to be found on the kernel howto page.
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Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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| James Nicholas Davey 2002-10-02, 10:25 pm |
| Jon Portnoy wrote:
> In article <nVHm9.207$zt6.29855@read1.cgocable.net>, Nicholas Davey wrote:
>> Hello, I just wanted to know if it was possible to dual boot multiple
>> distros, such as perhaps Mandrake and SuSE. Thanks for your time
>>
>> Nick
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> Quite possible. Just like dual-booting any other OS. You just need to make
> sure your lilo/grub configuration is set up for the right kernel and root
> device.
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Thanks for all your help. Its appreciated,
Nick
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