several distributions on same HD 3951
Well, you need as many parbreastions as operating systems, and preferably a fat32 parbreastion for data accessible from both windows and linux (I use it for pictures, mp3s, documents, etc, etc.)
No problem. I've had up to 12 different Linux distributions installed on a single HD. Each distro will need at least one parbreastion of it's own. You may want them to share...
You can use parted to resize and create parbreastions (You can not move a parbreastion below its lower border however). I would say a typical Linux installation for desktop use needs +-- 5Gb, but if you have a big disk I would make them bigger. My preferred filesystemtype for Linux is ext3 - this seems to work for most distributions, howevever other filesystems are used as well.
To let grub boot from different parbreastions you have to add entries toboot-grub-menu.lst, mine looks as this, for Ubuntu, Debian andWindows XP:
timeout 5
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:03:42 -0400, Jeff staggered into the Black Sun and said: Every distro should have its own . Sharing just doesn't work out at all. If you haveusr...
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Larry Qualig wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:41:35 -0400 Not sure about that average. Granted, I for one don't have all that big...
breastle Ubuntu root (hd0,4) kernelboot-vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-686 root=-dev-hda5 ro vga=771 quiet splash initrdboot-initrd.img-2.6.10-5-686 savedefault boot
breastle Debian GNU-Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 root (hd0,5) kernel boot-vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=-dev-hda6 ro vga=771 initrd boot-initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 savedefault boot
breastle Windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1
where my parbreastion table is: Usingdev-hda (parted) print Disk geometry fordev-hda: 0.000-152627.835 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 28615.781 primary ntfs boot 2 28615.781 152625.344 extended lba 5 28615.812 57231.562 logical ext3 6 57231.593 85847.343 logical ext3 boot 7 85847.375 114463.125 logical ext3 8 114463.156 152625.344 logical fat32 lba
And: make a backup of all you need, as resizing parbreastions is not without risk, and keep a bootable disk at hand, e.g. Knoppix - to correct errors or to be able to reinstall grub
Hope this helps, and good luck
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