TOPIC: Configuring yaboot for 2+ YDL installations

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Introduction
It is possible to have more than one Yellow Dog Linux installation on a single drive, with or without a shared home directory.


Setup
This requires that you have already partitioned your drive appropriately with a shared /home directory (if you desire) and most definately with a shared /swap. To share the /home, simply select it to be mounted but not formatted when you install the second Yellow Dog Linux.


Execution

1. Find the filenames for the new kernel components:

   nano /etc/yaboot.conf [ENTER]

   
   
2. Copy-n-paste the section starting with "image=" and ending with "append=", duplicating the entire section below the first.
   
   
3. Modify the image=, label=, initrd=, and root= lines accordingly. Make certain the 2 sections have different labels.
   
   
4. The result should look something like this:

   image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-3.ydl.1
           label=linux-one
           read-only
           initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-3.ydl.1.img
           root=/dev/hda[x]
           append="rhgb quiet"
   
   image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-3.ydl.2
           label=linux-two
           read-only
           initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-3.ydl.2.img
           root=/dev/hda[y]
           append="rhgb quiet"
   	

5. Commit the changes:

   ybin [ENTER]

   
   
6. Reboot.

This HOWTO was created by Kai Staats, Terra Soft Solutions