LILO Dual boot problem

[Madison Kelly]

I wanted to keep everything seperate so I used unique '/' partitions and
only shared the larger '/home' partition (keeping usernames with the
same uid/gid). I guess it might be possible but I would think that would
be one risky setup and I would want to be -very- sure that I knew what I
was doing.

FWIW, I assigned 4GB to each OS' '/' (I've left space for a third later)
and I haven't had any problems with space. Just remember to install big
programs like UT2k3 on your '/home/user' partition and not in '/usr/'
(if you are bad like me and run as 'root' a lot! ;) ).

Madison

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:28, Jim Ruxton wrote:
> I'm curious. When you are booting 2 different versions of Linux do you have
> to install those packages that are common to both distributions twice or can
> you share files between the 2 distributions.
> Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Madison Kelly" <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
> To: <tlug-HcP7FbCj2GFAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:13 PM
> Subject: [TLUG]: LILO Dual boot problem
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I have setup on my system Win2k, RH9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 (installed in
> > the order). Now I am currently booting with the Mandrake-installed boot
> > loader but I want to switch back to the vanilla (or Redhat) version of
> > lilo. Can someone tell me how to do this? When I try typing '# lilo'
> > after updating '/etc/lilo.conf' (from RH9) I get this error:
> >
> > Fatal: /boot/message is too big (> 65535 bytes)
> >
> >   Thanks for any help!
> >
> > PS - I tried sending this to 'tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org' but it seemed to have
> > disappeared. Sorry if this later ends up as a dup. :)
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