[plug] triple boot and mount point

[Mike Hasleby]

Ari Finander wrote:
> 
> How does one set a mount point for a second linux partition on a drive
> with  four partitions: 1 windows, 1 RH7.0, 1 linux swap, 
No probs
I have Slacware, Redhat 7, Mandrake 7.2 and since Saturday Turbo 6.1 ( +
windoze) all booting on mine.
in fstab enter a line for each system e.g.
/dev/hdc5	/mnt/redhat    ext2   defaults 0 0 
go to /mnt and mkdir redhat (or debian etc)
then mount /mnt/redhat (insert the disto)


and early
> next week 1 debian2.2?  Also, can the two linuxes on the HDD use the
> same swap file

read your fstab file on your current linux setup if you don't know what
partition your swap is on so you can manually set it to the same
partition (eg. /dev/hdc5) during your new installation.

In terms of lilo I cheat.  Once I have made sure the new installation
works ok I reboot the sytem using my Mandrake boot floppy, enter the
detail for the new install into /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo to
overwrite the new lilo
hope this helps (and wasn't more than you asked for)
Mike