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Old 11-08-2004, 06:40 PM   #1
Nikolay
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Installing WinXP,Fedora Core 2 and Debian 30r3 on the same laptop

Hello,
I'am looking for an advice, I have a laptop with Win Xp installed on it and I want to install FC2 and Debian on it as well, but I believe it might be tricky,
how should I make my partitions, Can OS share the swap partition? and what about the bootloader how should I do it? looking for your advice.
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Old 11-14-2004, 09:09 PM   #2
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Hello maybe will try to give more details. 2 OS sharing one swap partiton. Debian using LILO as a bootloader and Fedora using GRUB. Is it possible to configure GRUB that it will boot the Debian from another partition?
I tryed to instal Fedora first, but during installation of Debian it overwrites GRUB with LILO and it doesnt see Fedora partition as bootable.
So the only way I came out with is to make a bootable floppy for Debian during installation. Dunnot really like it.
 
  


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