Ubuntu

I have xp and Hardy installed as duel boot but I want to add Opensuse 11 as well help

Asked by Kev

Hi all I think his question might not be for this forum but you all haveelped me so much with Unubtu questions so hear goes.
I have XP and Ubuntu Hardy running well at the moment as a 2% and 98% usage respectively. But I have the linux try-out bug and have looked at Fedora 9 and opensuse 11 as well only as live cd's.... here is the question... does someone know if I can add opensuse 11 to my system without stuffing up the grub menu? a point into the right direction to a good how to is all I need, Opensuse would get its own hard drive..... many thanks in advance for your help
regards Kev

Question information

Language:
English Edit question
Status:
Answered
For:
Ubuntu Edit question
Assignee:
No assignee Edit question
Last query:
Last reply:
Revision history for this message
Sharar Ravitz (jewfro-macabbi) said : 		#1

You could do that and be certain not to mess up grub by disconnecting the other hdd's first. with only the hdd you want opensuse on connected - install it. You can add a manual entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst poiting to Opensuse.

Revision history for this message
Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#2

as far as my experience goes with such stuffs, its better NOT ti install grub during SUSE installation, you should rather edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst of your ubuntu partition, and add the appropriate entries for suse.
i hope you have a seperate /boot and seperate /home too. if you dont have one, i would advice you to make a seperate /boot, as it helps you later when you need to remove one distro.
you can also have seperate /home which can be shared with all the linux distros. luckily, you can still seperate /home in your ubuntu installation:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Can you help with this problem?

Provide an answer of your own, or ask Kev for more information if necessary.

To post a message you must log in.