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Re: [opensuse] installing 3 distros into 3 existing partitions- by a newby
  • From: "ne..." <guhvies@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:19:48 +0100
  • Message-id: <a227b70c0904010919k36287e3dy5b203260c6da7c61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 17:07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is having a small /boot partition out of favor now?

I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread.  I still use one when I
setup multiboot.  But I'm normally doing windows and one or two suse
versions.  I have not ever installed Ubuntu or Fedora.
I thought that was only needed for really old bioses. I haven't done
this in ages.

I do it because it isolates the boot logic from the distros.  So if I
decide to blow away a distro, I just do it, then clean things up in my
/boot partition.

If I had several distros installed and a /boot on everyone it seem
more difficult to experiment, but I have never tried that.
For my personal use, I just use a single partition for each install. I
then reuse the partition after creating a tarbol of what I need to keep.
I elected to go the simple route.

ne...
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