fdisk

From: dcastle (dnospamcastle_at_carolina.rr.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:55:12 GMT

I've installed RH9, FC1, FC2-test, and FC2 on my one WD 80GB HD. Each time
I trashed the previous installation. I'd like to install several copies of
Linux, FC2, RHEL 3.1, and a Linux From Scratch(LFS) installation. I guess
you would call this a multiboot configuration. My question is about
partitioning the HD. According to Michael Jang's RHCE book, Intel
architecture limits me to 3 active partitions and an extended partition
which can be sub-divided into as many as 12 logical partitions.

So my drive could be organized something like this:

/dev/hda FC2 boot files

/dev/hdb RHEL 3.1 boot files

/dev/hdc LFS boot files

/dev/hdd extended

            /dev/hdd1 FC2 non-boot files

            /dev/hdd2 RHEL 3.1 non-boot

            /dev/hdd3 Linux From Scratch(LFS) non-boot

Is this ball park or am I misunderstanding the fdisk/Disk Druid
explaination? Is there a better organization?

LFS uses a LILO loader, but I assume that I can replace this with GRUB.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Dwaine

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