null Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I have an FC3 box, and want to try out LE2005. I have the mandriva 2005 CDs (coverdiscs from Linux Format magazine). I have dual-booted linux & windows a couple of times, but in the past 2 years, I've kept separate boxes for linux & windows. Now I want to try 2 linux distros on one box. When I install LE2005 on my FC3 box, will I end up with 2 working distros? Will my /home in FC3 be the same /home that LE2005 uses? Or do they have to be separate. If my FC3 home is /home/null, then wouldn't my LE2005 be the same (if I have the same user name)? I'm a little hesitant to mess with a working FC3 box. Its my main machine, and I really like it. Any pointers, or things to watch out for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 If you don't want to play with headaches, then give Mandriva its own partition(s), including /home. Swap can be shared without any issue. I always set up identical names in the local partitions. Remember, when you mount those same partitions in the other distro, everything starts with /mnt, so they are not the same. For example, my scheme would be /, /home, /usr, swap, /mnt/kubuntu/, /mnt/kubuntu/home, /mnt/kubuntu/usr, and so on. From Kubuntu it reads: /, /home, /usr, /mnt/mandriva/, /mnt/mandriva/home, /mnt/mandriva/usr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 setting up a dual-boot linux system is not really a problem. first, make sure that you have enough free space left on your hdd. then fire up mandriva and manually partition the hdds free space for an additional /root environment. (oh... backup important data on /home. just in case something goes wrong. you never know) contrary to dan, i don't recommend a seperate /home partition. you can share the /home partition although you should use different user names (that is what i use on my double to quadruple boot linux systems). if you use the same user names, you will encounter some trouble as fedora and mandriva config files are not 100% compatible (personal experience). when the installation is complete, skip the bootloader installation. instead, alter the fc3 grub menu. way easier than messing around with lilo. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 I think I have a 200GB hard drive in this box. When I click on My Computer and then File System, it shows that Home Folder has 146.7GB free, and FileSystem has 9.6GB free. How do I see a nice graphical pic of how my machine is partitioned? When I installed FC3 I tried to make a separate Home, so I hope I did it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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