[plug] triple boot and mount point

[Bernard Blackham]

> 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 /.

Ari,

When you install Debian, you tell the installation which partition you
want as your root drive. Debian will have one root drive, which you can
create in the free unpartitioned space, and Red Hat will sit happily where
it is. You will then need to modify lilo.conf (I could elaborate, but
seeing it's late I'll just `man lilo.conf`) to be able to choose between
booting the two.

Both partitions can be read from either Red Hat or Debian, you just need
to specify in each distro where to mount the other partition. When you
boot into Red Hat, the red hat partition will be mounted as root, and
Debian at /mnt/debian (or something), and conversely when Debian is
running with it's partition at / you can mount the RH partition at
/mnt/redhat by editing fstab. They can both share the same swap space as
it is only initialized at boot.

Also, Were you running the second RH install straight off the cd-rom boot
disk? Or just running disk druid under the installed RH on the hard drive?

Does this clarify it any?

Bernard.


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 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au