Nick Rout wrote:
If you want to play with distros my recommendation is:
get suffcient hard disk space to run more than 1 distro on the machine.
A 40 G hard drive would give you, say, 3 distros at 10G plus a 10G
/media partition for your mp3s and pr0n.
With neither of these of interest to me, would 5-6GB partitions suffice? I have 4 available, plus a FAT32 share with the duel-boot XP (12GB).
find a distro that suits your needs from day to day and install it onDone. 1GB.
part of the disk. run your bootloader (lilo or grub) off this distro as
it will be the stable one.
use the rest of the disk to trial installs on, updating your lilo/grub on the stable install. When installing a trial distro do NOT let it install a boot loader or play with the mbr. go back to the stable distro and amend its lilo/grub to boot the new distro. (finding the correct parameters can be a pain). I find grub works better than lilo for this, but each to his own.
you can use the same swap partition for all your distros.
Thanks
~/rik
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