OK
taking the big plunge

gonna superparttion my HD today and TRY
to install, in no order

CentOS-5.3
Sidux-2009-xfce
Slack12.2
Fedora-11 lxde
Ultimate edition 2.2(re-install maybe)


any others?

PROBLEM?

Fedora's gonna want a seperate boot partition-yes?
help with this problem guys please

160gb hd seagate

Why? Ok, that was a rhetorical question, and I don't really care about the answer, but will you really get chance to play with all of those or should you reduced the list by using a live CD of one or two first and only installing the ones that you like?

I don't see the big problem > Plan partitions, make partitions, install, use.

You won't want to do anything hyper-complex with any individual distro (like having separate partitions for /, /boot, /tmp, /var, home, /usr and /opt), because, by the time you multiply that by the number of distros, that would be rather a large number of partitions, which would be unwieldy and unworkable.

You might consider making a totally seperate partition for the data that you create and mounting that under /home/your_username from the individual distros as otherwise finding your data could be fun, in the bad sense (unless you don't intend keeping this setup long, and then you might just want to try 'n trash in favour of something simpler).

What did you intend to use as your boot menu? Slack (as far as I remember) doesn't use grub by default, but practically everything else does.

I believe from your previous posts that you like Slack best, so I'd put that on first, with lilo in the MBR. Install the other distro's boot loaders in their root partitions and add these two lines to lilo.conf for each one:
I'll leave the rest (partition sizes, etc) to you.

OK, thanks for answering

Now, yes, Slack is awesome, noo doubt
Most stable, probably best to learn on vs Ubuntu or Gentoo

However, I already have like 15-20 different distro's
going on between my 2 usb's and my 2 desktops testbeds

But, I need to learn RedHat, for cert and maybe a job in Linux someday...
so, Fedora and CentOS are like cousins of redhat or what?

So, me, I always take the hardest path
it is simply the best way to learn

I learn by breaking usually

So, today Im gonna break some more stuff
Now, why the partitioning question?
I know, I can slice n dice it no doubt

But, fed11 says:

you see now?
I don't want fed11 running wild on the partitioning scheme

LOL, one time I installed dragonfly linux and it destroyed everything and made like
8 partitions or something /boot. /var, etc, etc!#

so, and fed11 wants to use a ext4 fs, will the other distro's be able to access play with it?

any of you install fed11 to hd yet?

Here's what I'm looking at now...maybe

180gb seagate hd

sda1 boot? (?mb) ext3
sda2 Slackware
sda3 Ultimate-Edition-2.2 ubuntu 9.04/ tinycore-2.2rc2 frugal (co-habitate)
sda4 extended
sda5 CentOS-5.3
sda6 Fedora 11
sda7 Sidux-2009 debian sid
sda8 swap

Ah...one way to get around the fedora 11 ext4 problem is installing frugal fedora
like on my ext3 usb, just on hd instead?

Is slack current pretty stable?
thanks

Slack current seems pretty stable, but I don't know how many more updates and refinements there will be before it's released as 13. I've no idea about Fedora, haven't tried it since 7.

What is the differences between centOS-5.3
and fedora 11?

both are redhat based

which one should I learn in preparation for rhce test??
both?

why you don't try RHEL5, I'm working with it right now, and it looks pretty good

doesn't it cost money?
how much?
where to get it?