Installing 3 distro's on same drive.

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Johan Scheepers
<johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Good day,
>
> If I intend to install 3 distro's on one drive, but would like to find out
> if it is possible / feasible ?
>
> Make 4 partitions on drive.
>
> Should they be all primary. I understand linux can handle that?
>
> For instance..
>
> First partition..        Ubuntu
> second partition..    Fedora
> third partition..        Centos
> fourth partition..      Swap.
>
> Now..should I install them in that sequence then Centos would control the
> MBR ?
>
> So now what happens when ..  say I replace  any of the first 2 with
> another/later distro ?
>
> What can be done should the MBR go bad to boot the distro'S.
>
> Some advice will be appreciated
> Thanks
> Johan S

Perhaps a Grub dedicated partition would do, just like:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grubpartition.htm



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