Multiple fedora instances
Doncho N. Gunchev
mr700 at globalnet.bg
Mon Dec 29 14:44:50 UTC 2003
On Monday 29 December 2003 15:12, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 ckotting at wideopenwest.com wrote:
> > I'm a relative newbie, but here's what I did that seemed to
> > work thus far (using two IDE drives):
> >
> > Start with two hard drives installed as master/slave:
> > - Install FC1 normally, but:
> > adjust the partitioning so nothing is on the slave
> > (this
> > should be hdb and I'll assume it is for the rest of the
> > discussion) but free space.
> > - Remove the master (hda) and install the previous slave
> > (hdb)
> > as master. Reboot and adjust the CMOS settings.
> > - Install FC1 (here you could exclude the bootloader unless
> > you think you might want to swap hdb and hdb at some
> > point)
> > - Renstall the two HDs as master/slave. Reboot and adjust
> > the
> > CMOS settings again.
> > The initial master is back to being master, the initial
> > slave is back to being slave. (Don't forget the change
> > the
> > jumper on hdb!)
> > - Reboot and edit grub.conf to recognize the installation
> > on
> > the 2nd drive (which should be /dev/hdb)
> >
> > If you want the two installations to be able ot read and
> > write to each other, it's a simple bit of editing
> > /etc/fstab.
> >
> > There's probably a better/easier way, but thus far, this
> > seems to be working.
>
> Just for the record, you are making this waaaaay too hard. Simply
> tell disk druid to install to either hda OR hdb. It can all be
> done from anaconda. Once the install modify the grub.conf to boot
> from either disk and all will be well. The days of having to swap
> disks to get an install where you want it are long gone. Of course
> you can do it that way if you wish but it is not necessary.
>
> HTH,
>
> .............Tom
When I installed fedora at home I had RedHat 9 and ASPLinux 9 installed
on the same disk. The only problem I had was with /etc/fstab entries. I don't
remember what exactly the problem was, but it had something to do with the
'LABEL's in /etc/fstab. It can be solved in 2 ways:
1. boot in rescue mode and get a console.
2.1. e2label all partitions diferently and edit /etc/fstab accordingly
| e2label /dev/hda1 'redhat/boot'
| e2label /dev/hda5 'redhat/'
if these are redhat's partitions
| e2label /dev/hda2 'fedora/boot'
| e2label /dev/hda2 'fedora/'
if these are the new fedora partitions. This way you can still use 'LABEL's.
2.2. edit /etc/fstab for all instalations to refer directly the partition, and
do not use labels at all...
Hope this helps...
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Regards,
Doncho N. Gunchev
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