Righty... I've got mandy 10... very nice indeed... does the job ok... but nothing to really write home about I'm afraid

Anyways, I have a 60g drive that I deliberaetly only setup 30gigs worth for mandrake, in the knowldege that I would in the future have to put fedora back on it... Well I have fedora on my own nice shiny dvd now... but I can't get it to install... anyone know how to setup the partitions?

I've currently got

/hda1 set to root @6gb
/hda6 = /home @20gb
/hda7 = /var @4gb
(all three are reiserfs)
I've also got a 500mb swap disk at hda8 (i blieve)

When I ran fedora's install, it refused to create necessary partitions on the remaining unformatted 30gb... any idead what I've goofed?

The easiest way to do it is to use diskdrake in Mandrake. It can create, delete and resize partitions, format and mount them. Very nice tool. I have Mandrake 10 OE, Gentoo, and Slack all installed and I used diskdrake to create all my partitions.

Yes. Use Diskdrake o set up your partitions. Then tell fedora to use them. I also have multiple linux's with Mandrake as the primary.

and try not to let fedora install it's own bootloader! mandrake usually has some options that it sets with the bootloader, and if these options aren't set you end up not being able to get mandrake too boot. try to have fedora not install the bootloader, and then just configure it to boot fedora after you finish installing - from mandrake.

cheers guys... so...

I setup a new set of

/
/home
/var

and tell fedora to use them?

Then how do I ensure that fedora doesn't try to use its own bootloader? or is this something for the fedora forums

i've never installed fedora, so i can't be sure, but i would assume there'd be an option somewhere during the install concerning the bootloader and where to install it.

and we welcome questions concerning any distro (hence the addition of the "Other Linux Distributions" section a few months ago!)

If you already have a /, /home and /var set up for Mandrake you'll have to name them something else, like /mnt/fedora, /mnt/fedora/home and /mnt/fedora/var. Fedora will see them as /, /home and /var. You'll have to do the same if you use Mandrake's lilo. I have installed Fedora and if I remember correctly it gave me the option to not install a bootloader. In Fedora if you want to access your mandrake partitions you'll have to do the same thing /mnt/mandrake, etc.

right... so... before I do it... checking I have this worked out correct...

I need to change my mandrake partitions to... something like...

/mnt/mandrake/
/mnt/mandrake/home/
/mnt/mandrake/var/

and then create

/mnt/fedora/
/mnt/fedora/home/
/mnt/fedora/var/

?? obviously doing this will mean that I have to edit grub also...

ps.. second q/ I had a swap @500mb inbetween my / and /home partitons.. i deleted it and created a swap of 1024mb after them... what is the easiest way to "bump" the partitions along so they don't loose data but that 500mb can be used?

no, leave your mandrake partitions the same, /, /home, /var. Then create the new fedora partitions as you listed them.

cheers.... here goes...

If I'm away for a while... you know I goofed it