Hi
I presently have Mandrake on my comp. on a separate drive. Can I install yoper alongside Mandrake? How would i do it? and would my mbr be safe? If it can't be done, will the yoper install recognize the partitions created and will it use those settings?. I would like to see how fast this "speed" demon is.
Thanks
Del

Hi Adelio,

I use Mandrake and was wondering the same thing, I got as far as loading the installation CD and starting the install process.

The partition tool that Yoper uses saw the partitions but didn't automatically detect my / and /home partitions as being such and I couldn't work out how to assign the labels to the existing partitions to proceed.

Sorry to be of little cheer, installing onto a separate hard drive should work better; provided that you don't mind editing your Mandrake boot configuration afterwards, it's not that hard.

I'm lucky enough to have two machines and I'll wait until I want to re-install Mandrake onto one of them and then simply blast Yoper onto it and play for a few days.

Whatever you decide to do - good luck,
purps

It is feasible since Yoper uses Lilo.
So what I would do is - install Yoper just on that empty drive
Ok when all is done go and edit your /etc/lilo.conf to include Mandrake as an option

A typical Yoper lilo.conf looks like this:

prompt
timeout=60
default=YOS-2.6.8.1-7
vga=791
boot=/dev/hda

lba32

bitmap = /boot/yoper_boot.bmp
bmp-colors = 1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table = 120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer = 254p,432p,1,0,0


image=/boot/yos
label=YOS
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append = "splash=silent "
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-3.img


image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-7
label=YOS-2.6.8.1-7
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
append = "splash=silent "
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-7.img

So one way is to have Mandrake as an option :

image=/boot/vmlinuz-(mandrake version) <-- this will have to be copied manually over
label=Mandrake
read only
root=/dev/hdb3 <-- or whatever harddrive and partition mandrake is in
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-mdk (again this has to be manually copied over)

I have *NOT* tested this setting just giving an insight

Conversely you can manually edit the /etc/lilo.conf of Mandrake
and work it in a same fashion so that it boots Yoper
again vmlinuz and initrd will have to be manually copied over since it resides on whatever disc the boot takes place.

Also it might be easier to install Yoper first and Mandrake second - since Mandrake's boot installation recognizes better other installs.
Consult with others how to have a dual boot for two distros using lilo.