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jason@jasonpNOSPAM.com wrote:
> 
> I have some questions that might be obvious for people with some linux
> experience but I'm new to this so forgive the stupid newbie questions.
> 
> I would like to have a setup with two different distributions of linux
> that could be chosen at boot time, probably RH and Slackware.
> The questions I have are:
> 
> 1)How do I work out the problem of having two "root" partitions with two
> boot images?
> In the RedHat install it will only allow you to select one root
> filesystem and only one can be bootable. It seems like there must be
> some way around this though.
> 
> 2)How much do the two different distributions have to be separated? In
> other words, should there be a different /, /usr, /usr/local, etc. for
> each one?  I know the install/config files are going to be setup
> differently but it seems like there should be at least some common
> ground.
> 
> 3)I already have WinNT4.0 and Win98 filling up my primary hard drive,
> and so I was going to put linux on the second drive. Could this cause
> any potential complications?
> 
> Thanks for the help in advance,
> 
> Jason

Why do you need two distrubutions?

you should be able to have them on different partitions and set the boot
image and partition in lilo as if they were different operating
systems... but if you want them bunled together... I would recommend
having only one distrubution.

But if it were to try another distrubtion I would keep it seperate.
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