[Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat

[Kim Hawtin]

> I managed to get the triple-boot working OK without too much hassle.
> Though I'm afraid I did wimp out when it came to sharing partitions
> between Debian and RedHat (except for the swap partition.)

i have share swap, /home and /usr/local ...

> I'm not totally sure if Debian actually needs a lilo of its own at all
> but it works.
> The other thing is if I compile another Debian kernel would it go in the
> main RedHat lilo or in Debian's lilo? So I'd have a set of nested lilo
> menus in a sense.

i use the freebsd boot loader on the mbr, then put lilo on each of
the root partitions that you want to boot from.

that way you don't have lilo from redhat interfering with the debian
lilo ... etc
 
> Next thing is to get my graphics card working with Debian -
> unfortunately it's a NVidia GeForce 2 so I think I may end up upgrading
> to woody. I understand it's possible to just upgrade the X but it looks
> a bit complicated.

i added a line in /etc/apt/sources.list? for the repo for the X 4.1
dist.

which works fine, as my video card is only supported by 4.1 ...
damn laptop wierdness.

yours,

kim
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