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Old 08-25-2004, 02:45 PM   #1
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Dual Boot Linux OS?


I am just changing my main comp to Dual Booting Linux and Windows. And I wanted to take it one step farther. I have 2 HDs. Both 80gb WDs. I would like to have 1 for Windows (NTFS), and 1 for Linux (Fedora Core). But, I would like to split the Linux drive to dual boot Fedora Core 2, and Fedora Core 3rc1. Is it possible to have 1 partition? (3 actual partitions, 100mb /boot, 1gb /swap, and 79gb /) and have it still boot dual OSs? Or would I need to split the 79gb / into a few partitions? And if so, how would I go about doing it (whats the easiest way?) I would like the two OS's (FC2 and FC3) to have access to the same programs if possible, but its not 100% important), also would like to be able to delete/reinstall/mess around with FC3 without harming my FC2.

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Old 08-25-2004, 04:44 PM   #2
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You should make seperate root partitions for the 2 FCs. I have heard it's possible to use the same /boot partition, but I stilll need to figure out how that works. You could use the same /home directory, especially if you use different user names, but why complicate things unnecessarily? You can always symlink your data between partitions.
 
Old 08-25-2004, 05:13 PM   #3
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Alrighty, so for an 80gb HD, im looking at something along the lines of (im going to go different partitions all together)
100mb /boot, 100mb /boot (for FC3), 1gb /swap (shared), and then two 39gb / partitions (one for each OS)?
Sound about right? Anything I should know before installing?
 
Old 08-26-2004, 12:55 AM   #4
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You can easily set up your box as a triple boot. Just treat each distro as its own OS, and partition the space accordingly. In other words, although you can share the swap partition, I personally would recommend that you give each distro its own set of partiitions. Keeping things separate is definitely the way to go (I think) particularly if you will be making changes to one distro that you don't want to affect another distro.

BTW allocating 1G for swap is serious overkill, I'd go with 256Mg max. -- J.W.
 
Old 08-26-2004, 03:39 AM   #5
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Nothing much further to add, except maybe that if you're going to use GRUB the 1024 cylinder limit isn't a problem, so maybe just to keep things organised you may want to put the partitions for the different distros together e.g. hdb1 swap, hdb2-4 FC2, hdb 5-7 FC3
 
Old 08-26-2004, 11:05 AM   #6
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I thought the 1024 was a problem with GRUB... or did they fix that?
 
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I'm booting from 2 differnt /boot partitions well over the 1024 limit on 2 different drives and no problem
 
  


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