I have a primary drive (40 gig) and a slave (8 gig). On the primary I have 20 gig dedicated to Win2k. On the rest of the drive I have Red Hat 9.
I am trying to install Fedora on the second drive. I'm just trying to see how you go about partitioning and booting more than one Linux distro on two drives.
I'm using grub as the bootloader and am sharing the swap file. However it seems that whichever Linux distro I install last is the only Linux distro that I can boot into.
Generally, I only use a boot, root and swap file.
My question is how do I dual boot win2k and red hat on one drive and fedora on the other drive so that I can boot into all three without the second linux distro absorbing the other Linux distro?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark

I just wanted to add that I have tried using two separate root partitions to hold each individual distro. I've have used two boot partitions and that didn't work and I've tried only using one boot partition.
So that is where I'm stuck at, so thanks for any help.
Mark

Do you typically install a bootloader when installing the 2nd distro? - if so, do you add an entry into grub.conf for your 1st distro that's already on etc?

Whenever I install the second distro using disk druid; it brings me to the grub bootloader add-edit screen where it shows what oses will appear. This is usually dos and whatever Linux distro I am presently installing.
If I add the first distro, at this add-edit install screen, all that will show up whenever I boot into the second distro, under /boot/grub/grub.conf is rootnoverify and chainloader +1.
I then try to edit this to point it to the first distro's kernel but whenever I try and boot into the first distro I get an error message. I am able to access the win2k partition and the second distro's partition.

The last time I made my Linux partitions, I had one boot partition; two root partitions for each distro and I shared the swap file.
Does the fact that I am trying to put both of these distros on TWO separate hard drives have anything to do with it.
Thanks,
Mark

PS I haven't done anything with the grub.conf link under /etc.