hi,
i currently have XP and SUSE 10.1 on my system unning with grub.
i want to add ubuntu 6.06 dapper drake or freespire 1.0.13 and i have 2 questions:

1- is it possible that i could install this four with my curent boot loader? (my suse grub looks Teriffic) and how should i do that? (i'm a newbie on linux and installing mp3 on suse took 5 days for me so please answer in easiest way!)

2- suse 10.1 supports my intel 945gz/ich7 chipset. does the other two distros support this?

You should be able to add the other distros directly in SUSE's /boot/grub/menu.lst
Make sure that you don't overwrite grub during the installation of the other distros. It may be a good idea to create a bootdisk (write grub to a floppy) to be able to access the other distros in case of problems.

Write down the path to and name of the kernel binaries and ramdisks. These you have to add to menu.lst in the same pattern as for the SUSE kernel. I recommend reading of the SUSE grub manual: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:The_Boot_Manager_Grub

1, This topic has been covered in detail in these forums. Click on the Search menu, and search for threads on dual booting and multi booting. There is a lot of good information.

2. If the other distros have the same major kernel version (e.g. 2.6) then they propably do.

But, that doesn't mean it's been compiled into the kernel. You may have to do that yourself.

man, i haven't got any word of that. what does it mean? what should i do?

The kernel is the heart and soul of the operating system. All applications, utilities, etc. call on some part of the kernel to do whatever it is that they do.

To make a smaller kernel (and take up less space on the hard drive), some parts of the kernel can be compiled as modules which can be loaded and unloaded as needed.

The Linux kernel HOWTO can tell you about it in much more detail. Google it up at www.google.com/linux.

If the distros you want to install are recent versions, it's likely they all have the 2.6 kernel.

What should you do? Go for it! If you have difficulties, come back with specific problems and as much information as you can provide in re the problems.