Re: [sheflug] Mulit distros??? was Downloading and burningdistributions

[Ted <ted [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 23:45, J Simpson V21 wrote:
> 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

I think you will find that suse needs to be installed on the last partition of 
a drive..It will then create it's own filesystem...It is ok to boot several 
distros but you will have to edit the Suse boot/grub/menu.lst to do it
...If you do the install you will get help on the grubfile from the list or I 
could if you wish post you my grub file although I erased Suse after a couple 
of days it would still help..
-- 
Regards
  Ted Wager
    Using PCLinuxos

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