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

[Pizbit]

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I actually want to leave the current windows and linux install untouched and
just use my 22GB of free space for the second linux install.

Jethro Carr wrote:
| On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 19:40, Pizbit wrote:
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|>- - 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.
|>
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| 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
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| Partition wise, you can have 1 /home partition for all user data, 1 swap
| partition and 3 root partitions (for each install).
|
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| Here's an idea, for partitioning the 40GB drive:
| /home			30.5GB
| /swap			0.5GB
| /root1			3GB
| /root2			3GB
| /root3			3GB
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| 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.
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| good luck,
|
|

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