Joel Dick wrote: > I had a couple guys help me get my drive partitioned and lilo installed at > the installfest last weekend, and I just set up an extra partition for > slackware, even got slackware installed (I think, haven't been able to > boot to it yet). > > So here's my setup quick > > 40 Gig IDE hd allocated as follows > > 4 Gig primary for win98 Primary /dev/hda1 > 382 MB Linux swap partition Primary /dev/hda2 > 5 Gig Linux partition for Debian Primary /dev/hda3 > Extended Partitions /dev/hda4 > 5 gig Linux partition for slackware /dev/hda5 > > I know I have to edit the lilo.conf, but kind of unsure how to go about > setting that up correctly, unfortunately I'm not at home right now to get > a copy of it to post with this message, I was just wondering how other > people have gone about getting this set up. here's a sample from a triple boot, windows and 2 linux distros using lilo as the boot manager: # /etc/lilo.conf - sample from a slackware system, LILO on MBR # # hda1 windows FAT32 # hda2 linux swap # hda3 linux native (slackware) # hda4 extended # hda5 linux native (debian) # boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 # Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table: change-rules reset vga=normal default=slack restricted image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22 label=slack root=/dev/hda3 read-only password=secret image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 label=debian root=/dev/hda5 read-only password=secret other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda password=secret -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list