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timcwilcox 08-31-2005 05:42 AM

triple boot suse 9.3 professional linux system
 
I need to install SUSE 9.3 Prof Linux on to a machine and i need three partitions as i need to install different versions of another linux software package.

I have not been able to figure out how to install three selectable partitions for boot, i dont even know if this is possible as i am more familiar to Red-Hat.

There is no windows on this PC at all, the hard disk is clean.

Simply what i need is the boot menu to say
Linux Partition 1
Linux Partition 2
Linux Partition 3

I appreciate i will need to install SUSE 3 times.

abisko00 08-31-2005 06:07 AM

If I understand correctly, you would like to install three independent versions of SUSE 9.3 on your HDD? In this case I would create at least four partitions, one for each system and a shared swap. You may also share a common /home (so 5 partitions) or more.

You may install grub only for the first installation and add the two other systems later to /boot/grub/menu.lst:

Code:

title Linux1
    kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 desktop showopts
    initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
title Linux2
    kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 desktop showopts
    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
title Linux3
    kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 desktop showopts
    initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd

There are probably more and better ways for realizing this, but this is my suggestion.

timcwilcox 08-31-2005 07:11 AM

Thanks, i will give this a try.

I appreciate the suggestion.

Liquid_T<NL> 08-31-2005 11:44 AM

YaST can help you put the bootloader settings together :) GRUB isn't that hard to understand, and with the help of YaST nothing can go wrong :) If it doesn't run to well, despite the help of YaST, post your
device.map
menu.lst
grub.conf

content here among with what is exactly wrong...
If you don't use grub, forget what I said :)


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