re.:installing 2distro + winXP

[operator]

hello everyone,

I have been trying to install slackware9.1 on my dual boot laptop which runs already mandrake9.2 and winXP - I have already a third partition available which i formatted as ext3 - I remember trying this a while ago without positive result (I spent 3 days to have my system back, after I damaged the other partitions and nothing was working anymore) - now I'd like to try again as really need to work on slackware -

does anyone have any good tips?
things like mnt/points, partition priority (primary, logic, active etc....), if I should install them in a precise order (which one first) etc.......

I remember trying to install RH as third OS, and after edting the lilo.conf (i also tried with grub.conf), fstab, mtab ........ did not manage to boot properly

any help will be most appreciated.
thanx
the operator

[variant]

if you could describe your current partition setup in detail such as total size of the disk(s) number, location and size of partitions and what partitions are in use we can probably help you

[operator]

I'm sorry I totally forgot about it;
Toshiba satellite P4 2.8Ghz
/dev/hda 60Gb
graphic nvidia 32Mb
RAM 512Mb
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partitions:
/dev/had1 vfat 23Gb - winXP

/dev/hda5 swap 1Gb
/dev/hda3 / 14Gb

/dev/hda7 swap 1Gb
/dev/hda6 / 22Gb

I hope that this may be helpful - still trying hard 9even right now as I'm writing this,lol) -

not a real newbie anymore but still I cant figure it out

thanx

[Dolda2000]

Admittedly, I haven't installed Slackware, but I don't see the problem. If the partition is already there, formatted and ready, then what's keeping you from just installing onto it?

[operator]

the problem seems to be editing the correct line of lilo.conf - the default image (mandrake9.2) sees all the other OS (winXP and slackware9.1) - winXP boots fine but slackware (the second distro) does not

after editing the lilo.conf (image, label, root....) still sackware doesnt boot up -

any idea on what the problem may be? could anyone give me the correct lilo.conf line to boot up a second linux distro?

any help will be much appreciated

thanx

[Dolda2000]

After editing your lilo.conf, you must run "/sbin/lilo" to recompile the boot sector. I don't know if maybe you know that, but I thought I might suggest it just to be sure.

[operator]

hello,

I have re-reun the lilo.conf after editing it, but that is the /etc/lilo.conf - is that different from the /sbin/lilo?

I havent considered running a /sbin/lilo (I didnt even know that there was one) - thanx for the tip, but i need to know for sure whether that is meant to be /sbin/lilo rather than /etc/lilo

p.s.: i also read in other messagges on this forum (Grub - lilo), that omitting the 'root=LABEL=/' in the lilo.conf apparently works better. Any clues?

[Dolda2000]

/etc/lilo.conf is the configuration file, while /sbin/lilo is the program that installs LILO, so yes, there certainly is a difference.

And yes, I would advice you not to use disk labels like LABEL=/. However, I wouldn't advice you to completely omit the root= option. That only works in certain cases. Instead, use root=/dev/hda1 (for example - exchange hda1 for your actual root partition).

[nikhil]

yeah...LABEL dint work for me using grub...i had to change it to /dev/hda1...

[operator]

hey guys, a BIG thanx to all!!!

eventually I managed to do that now I can boot all OS on my /dev/hda - now the next challenge is configure all the peripherics under slackware

once again thanx and ..... at the next problem!!!