here we go again guys, what i want to do is: have FC & Mandriva booting from same HDD, but i can only have 3 primery partitions and an extended (containing the logicals) Partition list partition1 - primery & Active - bootloader (& possibly OS selector) partition2 - logical - mandriva booable (possibly from boot sector) partition3 - logical - FC booable (possibly from boot sector) partition4 - logical - linux swap (shareable between both) partition5 - logical - user data (shareable between both) would this work ? how much HDD space should i allocate to each partition ? (installed to 80Gb seagate) and how do i go about setting this up ? do i itstall 1 without bootloader, then add the non booting install to the others bootloader good fun eh!
Its quite easy to install multiple distros, why you want to run FC is beyond me, but its all about choice. You would create an extra partition using Mandriva's partition tool, and then just install FC5 onto the new partition. In the installer, set your swap and /home partitions. E.g. you should have set up Mandriva with 3 partitions for what you want to do. A system partition mounted as /, a swap partition and another partition mounted as /home. You can reuse the swap and /home partitions in another distro. In FC5 installer, set the user data partition as /home and swap as you set up swap in Mandriva.
