Time for a change?

RaTBoX · 02-23-2003, 10:15 AM

Getting sick of sound problems, maybe it's RH, so I want to now go for Mandrake. What steps do I have to take to take RH off the HD and put mandrake in it's place (I will install mandrake with the same structure as 100mb boot, 1gb swap and 10gb / that I have now, if it makes any difference)

Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 02-23-2003, 10:20 AM

steps? just install it and match up the partitions you want.

fancypiper · 02-23-2003, 10:22 AM

3 steps, I think.

1. Boot with the mandrake install cd in the drive
2. Install mandrake
3. Reboot and start using it.

RaTBoX · 02-23-2003, 10:27 AM

How can I keep the RH install have and also have Mandrake on the system too?

fancypiper · 02-23-2003, 10:35 AM

You might use parted to resize your / partition to make a partition for each one.

I never have done that as I made a bunch of partitions just for that (4 distributions in my case). I use a common /home partition which makes it easier as well.

RaTBoX · 02-23-2003, 11:40 AM

Can I run druid from within RH to change the site of my / partition and then make a /home partition and still use the /home in Mandrake?

fancypiper · 02-23-2003, 01:08 PM

You can share partitions between distros, but not the system directories.

Examples: /home /pub /www, those types of partitions that Linux doesn't use to run.

If you don't mind losing your present installation, here is what I suggest for a home box multiboot:

Windows partition if used installed on first primary partition of primary master hard drive

My distros need / partitions of between 2 and 2.9 gig. I like to assign 3.5 - 5 gig (tons of games installed) for each distro's / partition. Make a separate / partition for each distro you would like to use/try.

swap - 128 MB max (unless you are running a heavily accessed server)

If you use a filesystem such as reiserfs, jfs, xfs for /, you will probably need a /boot partition. Distros can share this, but make sure you understand your bootloader and can point stuff to the right place if you use this.

I recommend ext3 filesystems for newbie beginners for simplicity.

The rest of the drive, put in /home.

On the installs after you have something in /home you don't want to lose, just choose not to format that partition during the install of subsequent distros.