New to linux, 2 hard drives, dual boot

From: Vijay Korapaty (zgamer00_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/30/05 

Date: 30 May 2005 10:02:04 -0700

Currently, I have a 80 gig hard drive which is used completely by
Windows. I'll be buying another 80 gig hard drive to install and learn
Linux with. Just wondering:
1. How to partition drives; I would like to install SuSE 9.1
Professional, Mandrake 10.1, and Fedora Core 2 all on this harddrive,
anything I should be aware of partion-wise?
2. In the future, I'd like to get a 250 gig hard drive to store data
that can be accessed by both Linux and Windows. Currently, all I know
is that I would have to format that drive as a FAT32 partition, but are
there any considerations I should take when installing the Linux
distros on the 80 gig?

I don't mind reformating multiple times, but I do find it a waste of
time. Also, this is a family computer, otherwise I would reformat and
repartition the Windows drive; don't want to lose any of my parents
documents and such. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your
time :)

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