Re: Installing 7.2 on a 7.3 machine...

["A. Johnson Jeba Asir" <johnson ooty tenet res in>]

Install 7.2 in some other partition. Now you wil be able to boot to 7.2
add the following to /etc/lilo.conf

mount the 7.3's boot directory and copy  the kernel image and initrd to
/boot

image=/boot/<7.3's bootimage name>
        label=linux7.3
        initrd=/boot/<7.3's initrd  name>
        read-only
        root=/dev/<7.3 rood dir>

Then run /sbin/lilo
After that mount 7.3's home directory localy

Appended bellow is my lilo.conf which can boot up 7.2 and 6.2


Hope this will help

A.Johnson
Nilgiri Networks



prompt
timeout=50
default=linux7.2
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
        label=linux7.2
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda6

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
        label=linux6.2
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda5


!I have RH 7.3 installed at home and I want to
!also be able to boot into RH 7.2 for testing
!purposes.
!
!How do I go about installing a 7.2 kernal? and
!Can I boot with the 7.2 using my current /usr
!and /home data?
!
!Any URL's / Howto's?
!
!I looked at the multi-boot howto, but that focuses
!on linux and non-linux booting, this is a mulit-
!linux boot, where the partitions would be shared.
!