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cheetahman
09-08-2005, 07:00 PM
I have 4 Partitions in my computer and I want to make It a Triboot with WIndows XP,SuSE Linux 9.3 and Fedora Core 4
Should I
Resize NTFS,Delete Swap,and Delete Fedora Core
or
Delete Fedora Core,Delete Swap and Resize NTFS
also
If I don't delete Swap and Extended then I restart Xp will Xp format it as NTFS or will it go over the limit and will it stay unformated.
These are my partitions in it currently
Fat32
NTFS
Swap
Extended
Choozo
09-09-2005, 01:46 AM
Delete 'FC4' and repartition your extended partition to allow a separate / for the fresh Suse and FC installs, plus a third common /home shared by Suse and FC.
Both may also share the same swap.
E.g.
Fat32
NTFS
swap
/FC_root
/Suse_root
/home
saikee
09-09-2005, 06:27 AM
My /FC_root and /suse_root are only 5Gb large leaving room for more systems to get in.
cheetahman
09-09-2005, 04:40 PM
So Which one
saikee
09-09-2005, 07:43 PM
About another 30.
cheetahman
09-09-2005, 09:40 PM
What do you mean by that
saikee
09-10-2005, 10:23 AM
DOS/Win3x/Win9x/Win2k/XP/FreBSD/Solaris/and a few Linux because they don't need primary paritions for residence. Not all the 110+ partitions in my box are filled by whatever I can put in Grub would just boot it
cheetahman
09-10-2005, 11:41 AM
Delete 'FC4' and repartition your extended partition to allow a separate / for the fresh Suse and FC installs, plus a third common /home shared by Suse and FC.
Both may also share the same swap.
E.g.
Fat32
NTFS
swap
/FC_root
/Suse_root
/home
How about Swap and Grub
cheetahman
09-10-2005, 12:06 PM
I don't need a home partition but probably 6GB for SuSE and 6GB for Fedora Core
512 For Swap I also have 512MB of Ram
Choozo
09-10-2005, 04:30 PM
How about Swap and GrubDo a search on these forums for multiboot and grub. The subject have been discussed (and solved) plenty of times.
saikee
09-10-2005, 05:33 PM
One swap is good enough for all Linux.
Every Linux also has its own boot loader (mostly either Grub of Lilo). I let every Linux keeps its boot loader inside its root partition and chain-load each one out (as though booting a Windows system).
In fact I would recommend to fully partition the disk to start with but no formatting. As soon as the first Linux with Grub has been installed and run satisfactorily just edit its /boot/grub/menu.lst to include all the empty partitions like this
title Linux in hda9
root (hd0,8)
chainloader +1
title Linux in hda10
root (hd0,9)
chainloader +1
title Linux in hda11
root (hd0,10)
chainloader +1
and so on.
Thus when a new Linux is installed and has been arranged to have its boot loader residing within its own partition it will be bootable immediately by the existing Grub in the MBR.
Grub can chainload all DOS, Windows and Linux (with Lilo or Grub boot loader) this way. I haven't met any resistance from *BSD and Solaris either.
Current Lilo has a maximum of 15 booting entries and so it pays to stick with Grub. It wouldn't entertain the unbootable empty partitions like Grub but the two are interchngeable for the role in the MBR.