Installing Mint 19 beside Slackware 14.2?

Novatian · 09-04-2020, 02:31 PM

I am pleased to have just installed Slackware 14.2 on an old Asus Eee pc 32 bit. It works well so far. I left free disk space during partitioning and want to install Mint 19 on it too. It is a test. Slackware uses LILO and when installing Mint, I then may be able to install Grub? And both options will appear at start up?

Any advice or links for this action?

business_kid · 09-05-2020, 03:49 AM

What I did was install Mint on /dev/sda6, and tell it to boot from sda6. It's thick enough to take that from you

It won't boot, of course, until you copy over the kernel, system.map & config to your slackware /boot and add an entry to grub or lilo. Then all is dandy, and when it updates stuff, it's harmless. Just remember to update the real /boot occasionally.