On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Mats wrote: > Thank you very much for all the answers. What I want to do is > installing > fedora 13 and ubuntu 10.04 on the same hd (Maybe also debian 5.04, but > that I can have on the other ide-disk). No problem with any of that. > I thought that the easiest way > would be to use primary partitions, and that I then will be forced to > use only four (and no logical volumes). Two swaps and two mains. Sure, and there used to even be those who thought that was the way of the future. (And the install discs from Fedora 7 to 10 reflected it. :-/ ) > Maybe > my thinking is a little bit old because my deeper experince of > linux is > most from before year 2000. LVM is MUCH easier to use now. No, really. Trust me. ;-) Actually, it is, but you may want to try the primary partitions idea first, for practice, wipe, and then do it right. > I have used BSD-unix a lot and feel it's > easier with their system, just setting up a primary partition and then > slice it and the bios just sees it as a primary partition. No argument from me on that. (I'm not sure whether I'm going to learn to compile the Linux kernel and make my own distribution when Fedora 12 on my Mac PPC goes off support or just switch back to openBSD. I've been getting lazy, playing with Linux. 8-)) > I will look through your tips more deeply and see what I come up with. > > /Mats Just grab an install CD or DVD and wing it. Watch the prompts as you go, you can probably work it out. It steps you through the partitioning, so, if you want, you can just go ahead and cut lvm partitions when you get there. One thing to be cautious of, it used to be that lvm got confused when it was trying to manage more than one drive in a multi-boot configuration, where it could boot from different drives. For that reason, my emergency boot on the other drive is monolithic. Do be a little careful if you want to try lvm on more than one drive, get on the lvm users list, at least. One more thought, you know how the designation of drive C and D gets a little weird? For that and other reasons, install grub separately in each OS install and chain. Don't try to have one GRUB to rule them all. (You'll see why the first time you yum update your kernel.) Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
