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Dual booting Linux Red Hat with Linux Suse?.

Apr 21, 2005 9:25AM PDT

Can someone tell me what type of installation I need to do in order to dual boot with Linux Red Hat and Linux Suse? I?m using a 40 GB hard drive therefore what type of partitions will I need to make? Can I use Lilo as the boot loader for both?

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Dual booting Linux Red Hat with Linux Suse?.
Apr 22, 2005 6:01AM PDT

I have dual-booted two ext2 distros, using Lilo; no problems. But multi-boot using the ReiserFS has always included Windows and the BootMagic bootloader. I have used Lilo with SuSe, so I know it will work.
As for partitioning: you can share a /swap partition, and only the partition containing the MBR must be Primary; the others can be Logical. When adding distros, I avoid overwriting the MBR by installing Lilo/GRUB to the root partition(s) instead. I presume you can edit Lilo to dual-boot with a ReiserFS, but haven't tried it. HTH.

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Dual booting Linux Red Hat with Linux Suse?
Apr 24, 2005 9:42AM PDT

Thanks, I'll give it try.