hey i am planning on doing aknoppix hd installand would like to know if its safe as in it wont overwrite my mandrake lilo and i can just add knoppix to my drake lilo.conf i hope someone know this

well i went and did it anyway before i got a response so what happened was it went really smoothly i didnt configure lilo during setup and my mandrake lilo is still entact exept now i need to know what to do to add knoppix to lilo in mandrale lilo.conf

here is my lilo.conf for mandrake

boot="/dev/hdc"
map=/boot/map
install=menu
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout="100"
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image="/boot/vmlinuz"
label="linux"
root="/dev/hdc6"
initrd="/boot/initrd.img"
append="quiet devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hdc6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdc6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only

other=/dev/hdc1 label="windows"
table=/dev/hdc

other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe

and here is my lilo conf from knoppix

boot=/dev/hdd5
vga=791
prompt
timeout=50
append = "hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
label=knoppix
root=/dev/hdd5
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz

## A Windows installation, example for partition 1 on first IDE harddisk
# other=/dev/hda1
# label=dos
# optional
# table=/dev/hda


is it as simple as adding

this line to my mandrake lilo.conf

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
label=knoppix
root=/dev/hdd5

could some plz help me clean this up i also have my fstab
here as well from mandrake

dev/hdc6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/hd auto user,kudzu,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0




i like it how it mount my drives at start up, and here is my knoppix fstab


# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hdd5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdc7 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# partitions found by Knoppix
#/dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
#/dev/hdc5 /mnt/hdc5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
#/dev/hdc6 /mnt/hdc6 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#/dev/hdc8 /mnt/hdc8 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#/dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0


do you think it is as simple as copying my fstab from mandrake to my knoppix box if so i need to keep file attributes i know there is a cmd to copy a file keeping these attributes is it cp somthing fstab
oh and i did make a boot floppy thats the only way to get into knoppix it has a syslinux.cfg file that reads default knoppix
prompt 1
timeout 50
label knoppix
kernel vmlinuz
append root=/dev/hdd5 ro vga=791 apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce initrd=initrd.gz

alright thanx in advance

just to keep you posted this is what i have tried so far

hasnt worked yet tried heaps of different things mandrake has been acting slow and buggy i may end just sticking with knoppix instead.

boot=/dev/hdc
map=/boot/map
install=menu
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=300
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hdc6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdc6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only

other=/dev/hdc1
label="windows_xp"
table=/dev/hdc

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
label=knoppix
root=/dev/hdd5
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
append ="apm=power-off"
read-only