i have 20 Gigs for windows, and 20 for linux. can i
repartition to 10 for suse, and 10 for mandrake? will
that be enough?
thanks in advance, Sukrit.D.
--- USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:55:13AM -0700, Sukrit D
> wrote:
> >
> > i have a celeron 1 Gig with 128 MB of Ram and a 40
> Gig HDD.
> > i am currently running win ME and mandrake 8.2. i
> now would
> > like to give Suse 8.0 a try. what's the best way
> to install
> > these simultaneously ? i have to reinstall my
> mandrake any-
> > ways so that is not the problem and windows
> only gets a
> > little faster and sometimes even less crashy
> after a re-
> > install so i guess i could do that.i'm interested
> about the
> > partitioning and the bootloader. i have some
> liking for
> > mandrake's bootloader so i'd liek to keep that
> unless Suse
> > has somethin better.
> >
>
> Just noticed that this query got no answers for
> over 24 hrs.
>
> What is your present partitioning strategy ? If you
> have some
> spare disk space left it will definitely be
> possible to have
> a second distro, without affecting MDK or ME ...
> Just install
> the second distro over the spare disk space after
> creating
> Type-83 partitions on the spare disk space. You can
> share the
> swap partition between MDK and SuSE. Do NOT place
> LILO on MBR
> after installation. Merely edit your lilo.conf under
> MDK and
> point it to the partition with kernel and /boot
> under MDK and
> things should work. This is assuming that the MDK
> bootloader
> uses LILO. No further changes needed.
>
> >
> > also, how is suse 8.0? better/worse than man 8.2?
> >
>
> This is a matter of personal opinion ... you cannot
> get any
> definitive answers. At least not from me ... I am
> neither on
> MDK or SuSE :-(
>
> HTH
>
> Bish
>
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