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Triple Booting
Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
I want to triple boot with WinME SuSE and RedHat on my laptop, anybody has a preference or an ideal way of installing these 3, of course i know windows has to go first but what then?
pkd_lives:
I suppose it comes down to which boot loader you want, and whose looks best. Obviously you are going to use a RH Grub or the one used by Suse.
I really doesn't matter.
Create a boot part. of 100MB
Create you home, you will be able to share this all round - But remember that if you create EXACTLY the same user names on a shared Home then KDE and GNOME setups will have some strangeness going on.
create you first root and swap. Install a distro.
Then install a second distro.
Do not re-format Home or boot. Swap is shared with all distros.
Create a new root for your next distro. Make boot disks.
Ice-9:
Which version of SuSE do you plan to use?
If it's 8.0 I would go with Red Hat as last install, I've had some freaky experiences with SuSE's Lilo in the past, whereas Mandrake and RH gave me no probs at all (with the bootloader that is).
Since SuSE 8.1 uses Grub as default I don't know if there's any improvement over 8.0 with Lilo.
Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
My SuSE version is 8.1 and its uses grub as far as i know.
What i was thinking was creating 3 partitions on the laptop, 10GB for windows, 5GB for SuSE and 5GB for RH all using Fdisk. This not a good idea first?
If i am to create a shared home then i'm gonna need an idiot proof guide to tell me.
Can i do all this with Fdisk, create home and boot?
DC:
quote:Originally posted by Linux Frank:
I suppose it comes down to which boot loader you want, and whose looks best. Obviously you are going to use a RH Grub or the one used by Suse.
I really doesn't matter.
Create a boot part. of 100MB
Create you home, you will be able to share this all round - But remember that if you create EXACTLY the same user names on a shared Home then KDE and GNOME setups will have some strangeness going on.
create you first root and swap. Install a distro.
Then install a second distro.
Do not re-format Home or boot. Swap is shared with all distros.
Create a new root for your next distro. Make boot disks.
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Actually, using the same account name is no problem, using the same home directory is.
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Makes me think - if directory /foo is owned by user AJ, with uid 2, and the partition containing directory /foo is mounted by another system, where Miranda has pid 2, is the directory then effectively owned by Miranda or is it protected otherwise?
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Anyway, share /home and /boot, and if you want some other directories used by all distros make a partition for those too. Swap should of course be shared. /, /usr, /var, /etc, /bin, /sbin, dev and all those are best kept apart, they'll probably conflict, and are sure to cause confusion. Do remeber though that /tmp should be sharable.
I'd do a 4/4/8/4 split (or something close), with 4 for Win. 4 for secondary distro, 8 for primary distro, and 4 for shared disks (between the distros - fat disks are hell). But that's just me ofcourse. Those parts could be sub-divided in partitions.
Win should be installed first. Fdisk can be used for creating partitions after that, if you want.
I'd put /boot on a primary partition, as well as windows. The rest can be put on logical drives on an extended partition (with 1 primary partition to spare. Use it for a / if you want to).
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