On Monday 01 December 2003 01:06, Russ wrote: > Hi All & Johan, > > I specifically mentioned you Johan because I see in another email > that you are doing what I think I want to. > <snip>
> I have XP home edition on an 80gig HD right now. > > This is what I want to do: > > I am going to get another HD (160 or 120) > > I want to run XP, Win98, MDK9.2, SUSE, Debian, RH/Fedora, and I would > like to try BSD too (don't know anything about this one so I might > nix it). I have never used anything but Mandrake so I wanted to > branch out and play <snip> > Thanks > Russ Ok you may ask 10 different people and get 10 different answers. All of them will work because they probably use it. ** wWth discs as large as that why share partitions. I have seen traffic on some list people sharing /boot between distro's..wel not being a expert I still like my coffee in one cup and my tea in another...the choice is yours. My suggestions.... Confine every distro in its own area. You want to play with other distro's this will make it safer. Sizes with your large discs...I have no clue...in my case the /boot is larger than home. I just work outqty of distro's on available space. See how much I pack in 40G...remember this is not production systems...just playing around. Only partition to share is *swap* I am used to 40gigs...here is my drive 1.... Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 1020 8193118+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hde2 1021 4866 30892995 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hde5 1021 1833 6530391 83 Linux /dev/hde6 1834 2244 3301326 83 Linux /dev/hde7 2245 2856 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/hde8 2857 3468 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/hde9 3469 4080 4915858+ 83 Linux /dev/hde10 4081 4782 5638783+ 83 Linux /dev/hde11 4783 4866 674698+ 82 Linux swap hde1 = win 98 hde5/6 = Redhat 9.0 = / & /home hde7/8 = Suse 9.0 = / & /home hde9/10 = Mandrake 9.2 = / & /home hde11 = swap for all distro's. Here is my second drive... Disk /dev/hdg: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdg2 1276 4998 29904997+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdg5 1276 2550 10241406 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdg6 2551 3825 10241406 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdg7 3826 4424 4811436 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdg8 4425 4998 4610623+ 83 Linux hdg1 = XP hdg5/6/7 = vfat no os's just store space between systems. hdg8 = linux ext3 = use for backup with rsync I do not know how important Xp is for you but I would make it drive 2 and do all the experimenting on drive 1 that will keep your XP mbr & the rest safe (should murphy's law strike you can just plug out drive 1 and xp will go) untill you are confident to mix it with linux. Ok to keep this within limits I will take a rest here. Feel free to ask again Goodluck -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning
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