Please help me - urgent

dARkHunTEr · 08-31-2003, 03:41 PM

If and if I'd have a boot partition, won't slackware mess up the suse stuff? (clean install, first suse than slack)

MasterC · 08-31-2003, 04:05 PM

Not if you set things up properly

mv vmlinuz, append the boot loader entries... Set it up to work and it will, leave everything default and expect things to act funny...

Cool

dARkHunTEr · 08-31-2003, 04:05 PM

No boot partition for me then.

MasterC · 08-31-2003, 04:06 PM

As a side note, what prompted you to determine this as an "urgent" request? partition setup certainly isn't something I'd consider urgent, maybe "I dropped my Slackware CD, I need urgent help on how to repent for such a sin" but not partition setup... ?

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dARkHunTEr · 08-31-2003, 04:08 PM

No but I want to have a reply so I can make plans now, and start repartitioning and reinstalling tomorrow (last day of the holiday).

MasterC · 08-31-2003, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dARkHunTEr
No boot partition for me then.

Cool

But be prepared for a bit of work, not much, but a bit of work when copying kernel's over to whichever /boot directory you will be using as the distro with the boot loader.

A summary:
mount /dev/hdx /mnt/otherdistro
cp /mnt/otherdistro/boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-otherdistro
vim /etc/lilo.conf
root=/dev/hdx
label=otherdistro
image=vmlinuz=otherdistro
SHIFT ZZ
/sbin/lilo -v

Now everytime you have to compile a kernel for "other distro" you'll need to mount up the distro, copy the kernel from wherever you've compiled it and edit the boot loader conf accordingly. More importantly, you'll have to be in the distro that is going to be the main distro using the boot loader to run /sbin/lilo to save the changes to the MBR (that or chroot, either way...).

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dARkHunTEr · 08-31-2003, 04:16 PM

I use grub...

quatsch · 08-31-2003, 04:32 PM

I guess I don't quite see the virtue of having a separate boot partition unless you recompile your kernel on a weekly basis or something. nevermind...

dARkHunTEr · 08-31-2003, 04:43 PM

I don't, and if I would I'd only do it for the distro I use most!

MasterC · 08-31-2003, 04:51 PM

Sounds like you are all set then

Good luck, and feel free to post up any further issues you have

Cool

dARkHunTEr · 08-31-2003, 04:53 PM

I hope the sound works in Slackware!
It didn't work in the slackware live cd, but it does work in SuSE 8.2.

MasterC · 08-31-2003, 04:58 PM

If not, feel free to search the threads on this board:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/search.php
The depths of Google/linux:
www.google.com/linux
And any other place you find yourself getting knowledge from

And finally, if nothing pans out, there's always the Linux - Hardware sections, Slackware forum, and of course, if it feels like it doesn't fit anywhere else but is Linux related, Linux - General

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Tuvok · 08-31-2003, 05:32 PM

I have 3 primary partitions and 3 logical (extended). Certain OSs require to be installed in a primary partition. Generally, you can make 3 primary partitions and as much logical partitions, or just 4 primary partitions. I believe it's very useful to have 3 primary partitions; you might need to install BSDs or other OSs which require a primary partition.

I don't use a /boot partition; I usually dedicate few Linux partitions (1 primary, 2 logical) and one swap partition for my partitions. For a bootloader I use grub. If I want to test/use a new Linux distro, I install it in one of my logical partitions. As for booting this new distro, I add entries in my grub. For instance, if I installed it in /dev/hda4 (logical), I add in grub:

title New Distro
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 <--(base entry)

Most distros place your installed kernel in the /boot directory and name it vmlinuz, so it's not hard to figure how to boot it using your current bootloader (grub, lilo).

My HD capacity is 60GB and is composed as such:
(P) /dev/hda1 OpenBSD
(P) /dev/hda2 FreeBSD
(P) /dev/hda3 Suse
(E) /dev/hda4 Linux
(E) /dev/hda5 Linux
(E) /dev/hda6 Swap

dARkHunTEr · 09-01-2003, 03:09 AM

Could you give me the sizes of each partition?

Tuvok · 09-01-2003, 09:21 AM

cfdisk 2.11z

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 60040544256 bytes, 60.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 7299

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Primary OpenBSD 15751.42
hda2 Primary FreeBSD 15751.42
hda3 Boot Primary Linux ReiserFS 15751.42
hda5 Logical Linux 5757.70
hda6 Logical Linux 5757.70
hda7 Logical Linux swap 1266.70

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