for f) , maybe just make it a lot smaller, because it's needed for testing cross platform
some other questions:
- how to easily make a CD bootable system such as knoppix and kanotix installed on
a harddrive partition , and the /usr /etc/ /var stuff upgradeable from then on ?
unionfs seemed to work for /usr but I couldn't get it to work for more than one base directory,
and had to resort to running a script after bootup which relinks some subdirs of /etc and /var/lib to a persistent
filesystem /etc/ and /var/lib/ .
- how does windows see the shared data partition ?
You can have max. 4 primary partitions per hard drive - to Linux (and AFAIK to
XP) it is irrelevant whether the partition is primary or extended. Only
really mattered for DOS based operating systems (<= Windows ME)
Usual procedure is:
a) shrink your existing windows partition (if windows is already installed) or
b) partition your harddisk into one primary boot partition for Windows, one
data partition for windows/linux (shared) per distro you want to install
(they can share swap and home!), one swap partition, one linux stystem
partition, one linux home partition (as a minimum)
c) install windows
d) install the linux distro(s) of your choice
e) if you use sbm, let grub or lilo be iinstalled on your linux boot
partition, else let them be installed on the disk's MBR
f) afte a while, trash windows - because you don't need it anyway
Horst
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