Hello Sevatio.
I am not an expert, but this is how I used my computer.
Mine has two harddrives, one Fujitso 10.2 Gb and a 3.8 Gb Seagate. On
the Fujitso I have a swap of 250 MB, a boot of 25 MB and two root
partitions (i.e. /). On the second drive I have two equal partitions,
when mounted they are called /mnt/library and /mnt/garage.
On /mnt/library I have a downloaded Mandrake 7.1. Which I install on the
first Fujitsu root partition and use the boot partition and Grub on the
boot sector.
On /mnt/garage I have had Suse 6.4, RedHat 6.2 and Slackware 7.0, each
downloaded from the net. When I have used them, I have always started
with booting from a floppy, and I initially use to erase all other
partitions from fstab, to kep them totally isolated. I am paranoide, I
know. This night I am downloading cooker to study it.
One stupidity I did when I first should install from a harddrive was
that I entered the very same partition to fstab, that Linux in its
installation had just mounted. Not very smart. That is to say if you are
installing from my /mnt/library, you have to let that partition be
untouched and not mounted in the Mandrake GUI partition. That drive will
later be accessed as /mnt/hd.
Regards
guran
