Installing 3 distro's on same drive.

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On 04/19/2011 04:39 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 02:21 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>> 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:


I've got a bunch of distros on one 500 gb drive. When I install a new 
one I have it install the bootloader to the root partition and then use 
Ubuntu's grub to find the new entry.

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63   100052819    50026378+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       100052881   769690214   334818667    5  Extended
/dev/sda3       769690215   976768064   103538925    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5       100052883   141564779    20755948+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6       141564843   245826629    52130893+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7       762364638   769690214     3662788+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8       245826693   329509214    41841261   83  Linux
/dev/sda9       329512960   371931135    21209088   83  Linux
/dev/sda10      371933184   456265727    42166272   83  Linux
/dev/sda11      456278193   458720009     1220908+  83  Linux
/dev/sda12      458720073   501227999    21253963+  83  Linux
/dev/sda13      501228063   563383484    31077711   83  Linux
/dev/sda14      563383548   565375544      995998+  83  Linux
/dev/sda15      565375608   607530104    21077248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda16      607530168   690521894    41495863+  83  Linux


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