[wellylug] More than one Linux Distro on a PC

Kingsley G. Morse Jr. change at nas.com
Tue Aug 12 19:49:48 NZST 2008


Running several distros is fun.

I like running them under a system emulator named
"qemu" with a disk image of the second (or third,
or fourth) distribution.

That insulates the distros from each other, and
avoids incompatibilities and data corruption.

Previously, I used a boot manager called "grub",
but that only allows one distribution to run at a
time, and required partitioning the hard drive.

Another system emulator is "xen", but my
impression is that it's less user friendly.

Thanks,
Kingsley

On 08/12/08 19:30, Tim O'Flaherty wrote:
> In a fit of enthusiasm, I'd like to run multiple distros on my PC. I'm
> currently running Kubuntu and want to also install Red Hat or similar.
> 
> I'm assuming that the first thing I would need to do is to make a new /
> directory in order to install the 2nd distro on (which would not be too
> hard)
> 
> When it comes to the /home partition, is it better to create a new /home? Or
> could I use the /home directory/partition that currently exists.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :) 
> 
> Regards 
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