Please help with triple booting
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Please help with triple booting
started by: GoLinux
Posted by GoLinux on Dec. 17 2005,18:53
Hello folks,I'm new to this forum and DSL, so please be patient with me.
I'm running an old Pentium II 300MHz laptop in a dual-boot configuration Win98/SimplyMEPIS using GRUB. The computer has a 20G HDD and 160Mb RAM. I have currently three partitions:
- 2Gb for the Win98 SE system files
- 8Gb for Win98 SE programs and data
- 10Gb total for MEPIS
I'd like to do a frugal DSL HDD installation, so I have a couple of questions. Before you ask, yes, I searched the forum but couldn't find information on a case similar to mine:
1. I'd like to take 1Gb out of the 10Gb now assigned to MEPIS and make it into a partition for DSL. When I installed MEPIS I partitioned the HDD using QTpart, can I do the same to create the partition for DSL?
2. I guess it is possible to keep the GRUB installation from MEPIS and just add DSL to the boot menu. How do I do that?
3. Should I do or be aware of anything else to accomplish my goal of having a triple Win98/MEPIS/Frugal DSL boot?
I have been using MEPIS for about a year, so I'm not entirely new to Linux. I do not fear the command line
, I started with computers as a teen-ager in the early '80s with DOS and I had to do quite some tweaking to MEPIS to get it to work on my two computers. However, I do not consider myself a Linux expert (yet...
), so please do not assume anything if you will be so kind to provide instructions.Thanks in advance.
Posted by nonoo on Dec. 17 2005,19:21
Hello, my Englisch ist bad, but I meen to know wat you want.1. Step
Create the a first Partition with 100 MB
2.
Start DSL 2.0
3. Install DSL frugal
Apps
Tools
Frugal installl
Frugal Grub install
In the install scirpt you must say. hda1
Than DSL was install on you first Partition.
After the Install reboot your Maschine.
Than bash. sudo su
That is to become Superuser-Service
Of Your Partion 1 you have a file under boot, grub, menut.ls
That must you edit with beaver oder annother editior to start your other systems.
title Windows 98
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +2
boot
Good Luck
nonoo