I'm going to attempt ;-) to build rpms and thought the best thing to do would be to have a separate Mdk installation on my system, so that I don't mess up my main one.

Am I right in thinking that I can have more than one Mdk9 installation on the same PC, e.g. Win98 + Mdk + Mdk on the same HD? I'm assuming that the second install will rewrite LILO accordingly....

Thanks

Dutch

yes, that's a pretty straight forward system. you could even share the same /boot and /home partitions if you wanted to... Personally i'd suggest that this is a little OTT for just learning to install rpm's, it's not difficult to rebuild an rpm database.

all you would need to do is to install the second linux, and then NOT install lilo. then boot to the existing one and, as you said, edit /etc/lilo.conf

Thanks for the info, Acid.
Actually I'm learning to build the rpm packages themselves, from source packages (to post to the MandrakeClub, etc), so I thought it best to separate the two installations, especially in the learning stage.

"Learning" is the right word though - I'm ploughing my way through Max Rpm book, Mandrake docs, shell scripting books, etc etc. I suppose I'm trying to go from someone who can reasonably tweak their system to packager - though with all this take in I'd have a headache if my brain stem hadn't gone into overload! ;-)

I'm not giving up though - no matter how long it takes! :-)

Dutch

sorry i did mean building... doh. somethign i need to learn too really...