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Is it possible to boot into Mandrake, SuSe, RH... Or even multiple versions of the same distro? Like when my PC first boots I get a nice gui that lets me choose between Mandrake, XP, failsafe, or floppy. Thanks.
Yes if you setup your bootloader to point to the proper location. It doesn't matter to the bootloader what it's loading. You can have as many different distributions as you want, even the same distribution. Just make new partitions for each distribution. If you do that it is usually handy to share different partitions between all the distribution. Especially something like /home is handy to have the same in each distribution.
Depends which distribution you are installing. All the ones I installed so far give you the options of setting the mount points during installation. Usually you have to choose expert install mode. Last time I installed Mandrake I could just select the partition to use for each mount point. I'm sure other distributions have something similar.
If not you can just modify the file /etc/fstab and have it use /dev/hda1 for /home
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