[KLUG Members] Multibooting distros

[Jon]

As an added thought - I have also separated out the /home and shared it 
between the different distros (RH and Suse).  This at least let me keep 
that directory to a minimum and create a directory that could be shared.

Jon
Minding of Madness

On Friday, January 16, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Todd Pillars wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 09:55, Mark Kowitz wrote:
>> I hope this isn't too much of a Novice issue to mention here, but:
>> If I set up a few different distros on my system (say RedHat, Suse,
>> whatever)
> I currently have Win98SE, SuSE 9, and Fedora on a 20G HD. I installed
> them in that order, re-partitioning during the SuSE into 3 (roughly 6G)
> partitions.
>
>> , could each of these share the same swap partition?
> I only specified 1 swap partition during the SuSE install (of 512Mb) 
> and
> the fedora install picked it up.
>
>>   Could they
>> share application installs, or do I need duplicate installations of 
>> Open
>> Office, etc. on each system?
> I have duplicated of each (because they are different versions by
> default)
>
> But by modifying fstab you could mount other partitions (as long as the
> kernel supports the file system) and use applications stored there.
>
> fdisk is good for finding out how your system lays out the partitions.
> while in fdisk only use the p and q keys to display and quit
> respectively - don't think of touching the w key while in there :)
>
> Be very careful of the placement of the /boot partition for each
> individual distros, subsequent linux installs have to be in the /
> filesystem path as opposed to their own partition - I lost my fedora 
> for
> a time, and I cannot say it wasn't my error, but it came back after I
> found a broken link.
>
> Also note that grub is very good at booting multiple OS, but the 
> default
> syntax for each distro is different. I used a copy of menu.lst
> (grub.conf) from a seperate box as an example to go by.
>
> Linux Magazine has had an article on grub for the last two months, but,
> unfortunately, they are not on the web yet. Head to your favorite news
> stand if you can.
>
> Todd
>
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