feelin comfortabe with slak, so i want to try installing it on extra space i left on my dual-boot drive. i have win2k, rh8, and left 22gb unpartitioned just for this.

since last time(1st time) i installed slak i had problems on where to setup boot manager.

So should i point to hda2(/boot) where i have rh8's lilo ?
or just point to / ion the new slak partion ?

Thanks again

edit: installed slak. made 2 partitions /, and a /usr.
skipped lilo in install'

i edited lilo via Rh, and /sbin/lilo and i get error:

dev/hda7 doesent have a valid boot signature

here's my edit to lilo :

other=/dev/hda/7
optional
image=/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.18
label=slack

=

great no replies, this must be a simple one

Got a few pointers...

Your entry in lilo looks odd:
I'm assuming:
other=/dev/hda/7 is a typo and you meant:
other=/dev/hda7

Here is an example of my entry in my Mandrake lilo config (I use that as my boot loader even though Slack is my main distro):
The main thing to note is that you need the kernel (all of them) in the /boot directory of your distro that you are using your boot loader from (so for you you'll need your slack kernel in your /boot directory of your rh partition).
This does assume you don't have a seperate partition for /boot (in which case you don't really need to worry about that, but make sure /boot is pointing to the correct partition in every distro).

Cool

For the lilo config file; the Slack partition should look some thing like;

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/slack-vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda7
label = Slackware
append = "hdd=ide-scsi"
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

For this to work, since you elected to skip lilo on the Slack install. You will need to mount the Slack partition under RH and then copy the Slack kernel from the Slack /dev/hda7 partition to the RH partition in the /boot directory. So that when you run lilo it will be able see the kernel file. Use another filename if you desire, but I suggest naming it something you will now to be Slack. Now I used the append statement above for an IDE CDrecorder drive on /dev/hdd, please change to your drive as required. If not needed then just remove the line. I also based /dev/hda7 from your earlier post, but it needs to be set to the Slackware root partition that you installed on. Run lilo after the file is edited. You should then be able to reboot and choose Slackware from the lilo menu.

The use of the "other" keyword here would probably be usable if lilo had been installed on /dev/hda7. Then you would have two lilo boot loaders that would actually run. The first from RH that calls another lilo from Slack install.

Keep in mind also here that your Slack install is dependent on the RH partition being present and bootable and the kernel where it is. If you wipe the RH partition then the Slack will not boot either. So I would highly suggest making a kernel floppy disk and using the rdev command to set the root partition. Provided of course the kernel will fit on a diskette.

cp /boot/slack-vmlinuz /dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda7

Perhaps it will be of some help.

thanks guys, that helps me alot !
i'm sure i'll have it up and runnin tonight.

thanks again

Cool, good luck; and post back if you have any problems/hitches

Cool

well i'm back, hadn't had time to work on this...

ok i have a new install, and ready to try again

win2k
rh9.0
and 20gb leftover for slak
i'll make some basic partitions for slak

2gb swap
5gb /
13 /usr

and point kernel( /boot), and bootloaders to rh partitions


sorry for not reporting sooner
thanks

You could list the other kernels all in one lilo bootloaded, as long as the /boot partition of the other is mounted, you give lilo the correct path to it, and it'll add the menu as a selectable OS from your first lilo. No need to load a second one to select RH in your case.
Eg in my case this install has entries like: