Re: How to add another distro?



On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:34:48 -0400, al wrote:

Yeah, it's plenty. When I get to the expert partitioner page and unmark
sda3 to be formatted, I see no way to tell it to install on sda1 and
leave sda3 alone.

The human mind reduces the problem to the most complex form.

You pick sda1, and set the mount point as /

Every install needs it's own /

You just pick the partition and set mount point / and proceed with the
install. Picking grub as your boot loader on every install makes it easy.

If you want access to the other installs, you dream up a mount point names.

For instance I might set /20081_64 for my Mandriva 2008.1 64 bit install,
/2008_0 for the mandriva 2008.0 install, /kubuntu, /ubuntu, /suse103, /suse110
for other installs.

.



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