[wellylug] General request for infomation on building a sandpit.

Jethro Carr dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
Fri May 7 20:02:09 NZST 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 19:40, Pizbit wrote:

> - - Would I be able to use the same swap partition with the two linux installs
> since obviously I wouldn't be running both at once.
> 
> 2)
> - - The actual setting up of the tripple boot loader and setting it up for each
> change of linux install on the new partitions. Someone floated the idea of a
> seperate /boot partition however I have no idea how to implement that with
> regards to the current linux install or new ones.
> 

Use grub as your boot loader. You can share the swap & home partition on
more than 1 version.

For information about grub (and chroot) check out the LFS book:
http://www.linuxfromscatch.org

Partition wise, you can have 1 /home partition for all user data, 1 swap
partition and 3 root partitions (for each install).


Here's an idea, for partitioning the 40GB drive:
/home			30.5GB
/swap			0.5GB
/root1			3GB
/root2			3GB
/root3			3GB


Use the boot loader on one of the root drives, and if you need to,
change it with chroot using knoppix or something.

Backups, just copy what you want to a unused partition on the 120GB's.
Also, if you create the /home partition, all the install's will share
the user data in the /home directory.


good luck,


-- 
-- Jethro

dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz

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http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/cv.html

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