[installation]dual boot with Mandrake for test

[Ciba LO]

Hello,

I would like to reserve one primary partition for Windows XP.  This way, 
I'll run out of primary partition in /dev/hda, because I prefer to make the 
/boot partitions primary.

At 16:17 2005/01/25, you wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 10:24 +0800, Ciba LO wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for breaking in!!!  I would like to dual boot FC3 and Mandrake too.
> >
> > For installation of the dual boot system, I understand that / mount point
> > partition should be different for FC3 and Mandrake.  And the /swp and 
> /home
> > mount point partitions can be shared.  But, I am just wonder if it is
> > possible to share the same /boot mount point partition between FC3 and
> > Mandrake and how to config it during the two installation processes.
>
>I wouldn't do that if I was you; you may find that each distribution
>screws up the other's bootloader at kernel update time. Given that 100MB
>is ample for a /boot partition, is there any particular reason why you
>want to share them rather than have two?
>
>P.S. Swap partitions aren't mounted on /swp...
>
>Paul.
>--
>Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>


Best Regards,
Ciba LO<cibalo at gmx.co.uk> 
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