[Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat

[Bruce Richardson]

On 3/1/02, 3:37:39 PM, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net> wrote 
regarding Re: [Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat:


> Boot - only really possible if you download your own kernel source and
> don't use the distro kernel packages.  If you think you know what you are
> doing, try it.  But it's only a small space saving and no real gain.

Thinking about this a bit more, you could do it using a distro-packaged 
kernel source.  You simply decide which one you are going to use and then 
have lilo feed it the correct parameters for the respective distros.  But 
there are 2 significant problems with this:

1.  RH and Debian both patch their kernel sources to provide specific 
features which certain apps depend on.  Possible source of conflict.

2.  Big problem building a large range of things from source, as many 
apps want access to the kernel headers/source when compiling.  One distro 
would not have the right headers.

-- 

Bruce

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