I want to put several different linux distro's on the same workstation.
Q1. How do I partition for multiple distro's?
Q2. How do I manage GRUB2 for multiple distro's?
I'm stumped to discover how to deploy more than one or two distro's per drive regardless of the drive capacity.
The legacy workstation has a primary disk drive typically
/dev/sda*. The partitioning rules allow for a total of four(4) primary partitions. One of those primary partitions might be an "extended" partition, and those can provide additional "logical" partitions. The linux convention assigns sda1-sda4 to the primary partitions with sda5-up for logical partitions.
One approach to partitions and linux install looks something like this:
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 15298 122881153+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 15299 16700 11261565 12 Diagnostics
/dev/sda3 16701 60801 354241220+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 52516 60801 66557295 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 16701 24602 63472752 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 24603 24845 1951866 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 24846 26061 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 44613 52514 63472783+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 26062 43975 143889690 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 43975 44612 5118976 82 Linux swap
This partition plan allows for dual-boot with M$ Windows(tm) and a bootable Vendor supplied rescue/recovery application.
Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan