I can't seem to install Slackware 7.0 as a secondary Linux distro. My primary distro is RedHat 7.1, which is on /dev/hdb1, hdb5, and hdb6. /dev/hdb7 is my swap partition, and I tried to install slackware 7.0 on /dev/hdb9 (as /) and /dev/hdb8 (as /var/www/html). I have tried all of Slackware's installation defaults (I reinstalled the OS about 85 times, since there's not 'mkbootdisk' in slack 7 ). I've tried installing LILO to a boot floppy, the MBR, and /dev/hdb8. Slackware refuses to write it--after installing LILO to the MBR, I removed all of my boot media, and RedHat's version of LILO, with the options to boot into 'doze or RedHat (no Slackware), to no avail. I also tried adding Slackware's kernel to RedHat's LILO, and it wouldn't install--Liloconf (i.e., the LILO item in the 'kontrol panel') tells me that /dev/hdb8 has more than 1024 cylinders or some such, when in fact it's a 3 GB partition--I thought I could go to 8 GB without making a separate /boot partition--which Slack would ignore anyways, since vmlinuz is put in /. In fact, my / partition in RedHat is 5 GB, and it has no problem.

Liloconf says "try lba32 instead". I did. It kept saying 'try lba32 instead'. I added the line "lba32" in every place I could think of, including the entries for 'doze and RedHat.

For what it's worth, I'm using the version of Slack 7 that came in the back of the book "Install, Configure, and Customize Slackware Linux", published by Prima Tech.

(another sidenote--since I've been playing with distros, the only one I've succesfully been able to run alongside of RedHat has been Mandrake, and Mandrake is just RedHat with a mask on. I should try to get a copy of RedHat 6.2 and see if it barths when I try to install it as a separate distro)

To make a book disk under slackware its makebootdisk IIRC.

As for the lilo problem - post your LILO config file, you should just be able to add the relevant sections to your lilo config under Redhat to boot your Slackware system, or visa-versa... That lba32 option just goes in the general area of your lilo.conf file (near the top). Clearly you will need to reinstall LILO to do this. There should be nothing stoping both distro's from sharing the same kernel if you have that many problems. Just boot your Slackware system with the kernel held in Redhats /boot partition. You'll want to make sure that you keep your kernel modules in synch between the two distro's mind you!!

cheers

Jamie...

Thanks--I'll try that (LBA32 trick, and using RedHat's kernel), and if it fails, I'll upload my lilo.conf files, both the huge, heavily-commented file generated by Slackware, and the trim little bugger I use for RedHat.