I have Win 98 and Mandrake 9.1 running on my Athon XP and Nforce box. I have Suse 9.1 Pro disks and want to add it to the system. I have never tried to load 2 Linus OS's on one box What issues do I need to prepare for ahead of time?

Steel Shepherd

I read somewhere that SuSE recognized Fedora Core 1 and Windows XP in a multiboot install and configured GRUB correctly. I can't verify that though, so it might not be accurate.

You should be able to install SuSE and then at the very least, manually configure GRUB.

It's fairly simple, basically it involves changing the bootloader in mandrake from lilo to grub. You don't have to but, SuSE loads grub by default, and grub might be a little easier to work with as it doesn't need to be run every time you change it. Let YAST partition the drive. it does a good job. mandrake won't show up as a boot option until the menu.lst in SuSE is edited to include whatever mandrake kernel(s) you want to boot. You can even format the new mandrake partition as a reiser if you want. Someone a little smarter then me will probably set ya straight soon, but I'll make a little tutorial for ya with pictures, as I've been meaning to make one anyway. I had winblos xp and 3 linuxs running on 1 drive.. It probably isn't very practical, but it's fun as hell making it work