LILO Dual boot problem

[William Park]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:28:29PM -0400, 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.

You should keep them separate, because they are often different version
and configured differently.  But, I suppose some can be shared, ie.
/tmp.


> > 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)

Reduce the size, then. :-)

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