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[sheflug] Mulit distros??? was Downloading and burning distributions



Hi all,
Got it sorted.  Thanks for your replies.

I put the first disk that I burned and the second disk into my 
children's machine to sort it.  The drop and drag disk was wrong with 
just the one file ending .iso.  The second disk was the correct one 
containing about 14 files.  I presume like Fedora, before I carry out 
the installation it will ask me if I want to check the cd's first.

Now I have Suse 10.0 my gut feeling is to dual boot on the children's 
machine.  I have a feeling that the multi distro on my machine is going 
to be beyond me at the moment.  Benefits of having it on the children's 
machine would be I would feel happy to connect it to the modem router 
with suse (I'm not to happy doing that with windows, with AVG).  
Negatives are I would probably be hogging their machine to play with the 
suse (I did promise not to hog their machine when they got it).

My machine is set up with windows and Fedora Core 2.  It actually has an 
empty space for another distro, (accidental forward planning on my part 
:-) ).  Would it be easy install it?  In my mind the easiest would be to 
have it as a standalone installation.  I could copy my home directory to 
my second hard drive and then copy that into Suse when it is up and 
running? Would that work or am I thinking about it wrong?  The 
difficulty I can see is organising the bootloader with the three choices 
of windows, fedora and suse?

My other option probably the easiest if it goes well is to install the 
Suse over the Fedora and copy across my home directory from my second 
drive. So I would just have windows and suse.  If it goes badly I would 
be reinstalling fedora Core 2.

Appreciate any comments from anyone who has tried multi distributions on 
a machine.

Regards

Janet
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