Regarding the statement "Each would need a separate partition, AFAIK" I've recently considered dual booting my W98SE hard drive which is 40G total size with only 20G used made up of C: primary partition and D,E,F,G,H all logical drives in one extended partition (each around 3-6G each)
When I put in my W98SE boot disk to make a second PRIMARY partition I was not allowed because fdisk told me there was already a primary partition existing. If I wanted to have W98SE, Debian and Peanut Linux all on the same drive how would I go about that. Was I wrong to put in the W98SE boot / rescue disk. Lindows (I'm an insider /pre-general-release-by-subscription user) will install beside windows if one has space on the drive, (it is called a friendly install). I felt it was too risky to proceed because I didn't want to damage my W98SE main everyday machine. Asus A7V motherboard. Would you advise using a Linux distribution root / boot diskette combination to set up my hard drive. (I've ruined about 8 laptop drives in the past trying so am nervous). Lorraine chuck gelm wrote: > > Hi, Geoff: > > Yes. Although the files (filesystem(s)) are not 'transferred'. > The filesystem is 'mounted'. > Each OS must be capable of mounting the filesystem's type: > second extended, reiserfs, third extended, minix, fat, vfat, > ...whatever. > > I get the impression that each of the two distributions you mention > are on a separate physical hard drive. This is not necessary. > One can have multiple operating systems on a single physical drive. > Each would need a separate partition, AFAIK. > > HTH, Chuck > > geoff wrote: > > > > I have a dual-boot Linux system. Debian 3.0 (Woody), and SuSE 8.0 (Prof)., > > on separate drives sharing a common machine (Pentium III at 600 MHz). > > > > Both work well, and I am enjoying learning the differences between them, > > running > > them as separate alternatives. > > > > Would it be inadvisable to have a third hard disk drive on the same shared > > machine, > > which is mountable on either distro, in order to enable files from (say) > > Debian to be transfered > > into SuSE, (or vice-vers) or would I be asking for trouble ? > > > > Can I use a common device (say) /dev/hdc as a common part of two > > partition systems ? > > > > A possible use would be to YaST/ RPM into Debian, or APT/ DEB into SuSE. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Geoff Bagley > > G3FHL. > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
