Hello,
Sorry for breaking in!!! I would like to dual boot FC3 and Mandrake too.
For installation of the dual boot system, I understand that / mount point partition should be different for FC3 and Mandrake. And the /swp and /home mount point partitions can be shared. But, I am just wonder if it is possible to share the same /boot mount point partition between FC3 and Mandrake and how to config it during the two installation processes.
Where can I locate a good tutorial guide for setting up a FC3-Mandrake dual boot system? If anyone has a working FC3-Mandrake dual boot system, would you please list your partition table and grub configuration as:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
At 20:40 2005/01/24, you wrote:
Moyne Daniel wrote:I want to test the fedora distribution in parallel to an installed Mandrake distribution ; my questions are :
- can I install it in parallel onto a separate HD partition :
Yes, you can.
then what is the basic procedure starting from a complete set of CD's that I can get by buying a dedicated magazine,
Follow the instructions shown in the magazine.
- can I select either mandrake or fedora distribution at boot : possibly with lilo bootloader,
When the FC3 installer asks you to select where to install the bootloader, tell it to install grub in the partition you're installing FC3 to (rather than the MBR). Your computer will boot only into Mandrake at this point but you should be able to configure your existing Mandrake bootloader, whether it be LILO or grub, to boot Fedora too. Simply chain-load the grub loader from the Fedora partition, just the same as how you would boot Windows if it was installed in the Fedora partition.
- can I share some data between both distributions : /home and possibly "/usr/local" for some compiled softwares.
This is possible but you may have problems if SELinux is enabled in FC3 - it may add attributes to your filesystems that the Mandrake OS does not understand.
Paul.
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