Dual booting: Ubuntu LTS and openSUSE 12.1

[LinuxIsOne]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Pongo A. Pan <pongo_pan at fastmail.us> wrote:

> No, /swap, /, and /home.

> What I've done in the past is just install the distro which uses grub 2
> first and then install the one which uses grub legacy second and specify
> that no boot loader at all be used.  This is fairly easy to do with
> openSUSE's excellent installer (under "Extras" on the boot configuration
> screen if memory serves).  Then reboot to the grub 2 distro and sudo
> update-grub: the grub legacy distro will be found and added
> to /boot/grub.cfg automatically.

> Any number of distros can share the same swap space and it is easy to
> have a large common data space and small home partitions with common
> stuff like Music, Documents, and Downloads connected with symlinks.
> I've currently got Ubuntu, Mint, Sabayon and openSUSE on this machine,
> all sharing the same swap and data.  If I can do it, it's not hard.

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> The GRUB version which you install last in the MBR will be the relevant
> one.

> I don't know the requirements of Opensuse, but it can probably live in a
> single partition. Then I would suggest to use one common swap partition
> and root partitions for the two individual operating systems. I don't
> think a separate boot partition would make sense, unless you want to use
> LVM or RAID. And if you need a boot partition, I think it would be a
> good idea to not use a common boot partition for both operationg
> systems.

> It would only make changes to the Opensuse file menu.lst because Ubuntu
> doesn't use it. However I would suggest to install Opensuse first and
> then install Ubuntu afterwards with GRUB2 in the MBR. Ubuntu should find
> the Opensuse installation and put it in the config file of the boot
> loader. Then you can select the wanted OS from the boot menu and you
> don't have to manually edit anything. Only if you get a new opensuse
> kernel, you would run the command

> sudo update-grub

> in a terminal to boot with the right Opensuse kernel.

Okay I try these options and then see the results, come back a little
later.. try and play with these.....at the wrost if would have any
problem, would then wipe the whole drive and install only Ubuntu LTS!

Thanks.