On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:10 am, James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all...
I've set up a couple of dual boot W$/SuSE systems before. But I plan on next weekend trying a SuSE/Mandrake system. I've never did a Linux/Linux system before. Is there anything special I should watch out for? Does it matter which one I install first?
I usually have several distros installed at one time. The main problem I have run into, is when a distro uses the partition label instead of of the /dev/xxx to mount partitions. If two installs each create a partition labeled '/', then the system doesn't know which one to use and, IIRC, will use the first one it finds, which can screw things up. After the install, I always check fstab and grub menu.lst(or menu.conf depending on distro and version) to make sure everything is pointing to/mounting /dev/xxx and not labels. I don't use a separate /boot for each distro. '/boot' is part of '/'. I don't install the boot loader with each distro. I have a favorite distro that I use almost all the time. That is the distro I install grub from and that is the menu.lst/menu.conf I modify to boot the other distros. Doug