I haven't run into anything like that, possibly since I have setup the
partitions before I do the installs. For example, I have my machine setup
with about 16 different partitions - when I installed any of the distros, I
made sure to use the expert or custom mode, so that I could specifiy the
mount points. I only mount the partitions that the install should see, so
that distro isn't even aware of the others. This may not be the most
efficient method, but it does work. Right now, I have Mandrake 7.2 and the
8.0 beta, SuSe 7.1 and the latest RedHat beta, Wolverine. Each has its own
/boot, root and /home partition - I haven't tried sharing any partitions. I
have GRUB setup to boot each of the /boot partitions appropriately
So, I would recommend repartioning your extra space and then see what happens.
Cheers,
Philomena
At 11:59 AM 3/15/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Can I ask how you folks got the second (and beyond)
>linux distributions installed? Everytime I've tried
>that I've run into problems because the new
>distribution sees the old distributions root, boot,
>usr, etc, and refuses to create new ones.
>
>I have a windows/mandrake dual boot system with about
>10 gigs on allocated disk space. I'd like to try to
>get Slackware or Debian installed in that empty space.
>
>--- philomena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > triple boot should be no problem - I have 5 on one
> > machine - 4 linux
> > and a win98. There's probably a better way, but I
> > just set up a
> > different boot partition for each OS, and use grub
> > as the bootloader. I
> > did the partitioning first using Partition Magic.
> >
> > cheers,
> > philomena
>
>
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