chad
09-09-2004 14:04:17
I must say the recent Install Fest motivated me take a look at other distros. I currently have an older Gateway Solo laptop with 20GB hard drive. I thought to myself, "wouldn't it be cool if I could install five different distros on this one box".
Well.... after a few late evenings, I have it working. I'm sharing the /home, /boot and swap file systems between each disto. Here's the list of partions I've created:
Here's a list of them mounted while booted to Slackware:
Has anyone else tried this sort of silliness?
Well.... after a few late evenings, I have it working. I'm sharing the /home, /boot and swap file systems between each disto. Here's the list of partions I've created:
root@laptop:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 195 98248+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 196 692 250488 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 693 38760 19186272 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 693 7475 3418600+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 7476 14258 3418600+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 14259 21041 3418600+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 21042 27824 3418600+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 27825 34607 3418600+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 34608 38760 2093080+ 83 LinuxHere's a list of them mounted while booted to Slackware:
root@laptop:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 3.3G 1.6G 1.8G 48% /
/dev/hda10 2.0G 149M 1.9G 8% /home
/dev/hda1 93M 15M 74M 17% /boot
/dev/hda6 3.3G 260M 3.1G 8% /debian
/dev/hda7 3.3G 934M 2.4G 28% /gentoo
/dev/hda8 3.3G 1.2G 2.1G 37% /fedora
/dev/hda9 3.3G 1.7G 1.7G 51% /suse
Has anyone else tried this sort of silliness?