[plug] triple boot and mount point

[Ari Finander]

I didn't make myself entirely clear last time.  I have 3 partitions
and 5GB of unpartitioned space on my HDD.  One partition is for
Win98SE, one for linux swap, and one for RedHat 7.0.  When I was
playing around with RH7's installation program last night, I tried to
partition the remaining 5GB as a linux native partition with Disk
Druid.  However, it wouldn't accept the mount point as / because that
was already in use by the existing Red Hat installation.  I'm worried
that when I try to install Debian 2.2r2 next week that it'll give me
the same problems in creating a new partition with the mount point as
/ because there's already a partition with a mount point as /.  Of
course, there may not be any problems at all, and this could be just a
RedHat installation quirk.  If I wanted to install a different version
of Red Hat or a slightly different install of Red Hat 7 on the
remaining unpartitioned space, the Disk Druid program requires that I
specify a different mount point than / which is in use by the first
Red Hat partition.  Am I making sense?  I need to sleep :-(

TIA,

Ari


Original message from: Mike Hasleby <hasm at ljbc.wa.edu.au>
>
>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
>
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