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Wish to install two new OSes without eliminating my 2 primary partition of / and /usr, so is there a way to to boot from an added Extended partition???
As indicated by foodown, this should not be a problem with any Linux OS booting from a logical partition. You would need to have a primary partition still available in which to create additional logical partitions unless you already have and extended partition.
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You could use GParted to check your disk partitions. It allows you to adjust partition sizes. I bought an Asus netbook which came with an unwanted Windows partition so I used GParted to shrink it down to a minimal size then created another partition for Ubuntu. I could just as easily have created two. Why did I leave the Windows partition on the system?? Because if it developed a hardware fault, PC World think the Warranty is void if Windows is missing.
Alternately... If your / partition is big (probably not ) you could use vmbox and add additional virtual OSes
(It creates virtual disks within the / directory. Yup! My initial attempt failed miserably when the partition filled up and I had to start again. I just use a larger / and a /home partition now.)
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Last edited by Soadyheid; 08-20-2010 at 01:58 PM.
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O.K. Thanks to everyone for the good ideas. I reinstalled and added two large (20 GB) additional External partitions, then installed freespire on one to see how it all worked. The install went fine, but they have a volume manager that isn't working properly (won't save any changes you make to it) and it has taken over the booting process so that it boots itself first -- and only itself as a option (my suse not listed as option). Is there any command line input that will correct this, or will I have to delete everything or try new full reinstall?
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Why did I leave the Windows partition on the system?? 
Because if it developed a hardware fault, PC World think the Warranty is void if Windows is missing. 
) you could use vmbox and add additional virtual OSes
