Windows XP and 2 Linuxes on one drive?

[mrtaber]

OK, here's what I'd like to do--I want to configure my machine with 20Gb of diskspace for Windows XP, 10 Gb for CentOS Linux 4 (it mirrors what we have at work, RHEL 4), and the rest of the hard drive (about 130Gb) for Fedora. I also want to make sure this clean setup will handle the upgrade to FC4 cleanly when the time comes.

So, I create a Windows Partition, a CentOS partition, a swap partition (can multiple Linuxes use the same swap partition, or do I need one per installation?), and then the disk space for Fedora. I'd like to split the space into /home and everything else...so that when I upgrade to FC4, I can leave /home alone (no pun intended...it's been a long day and I'm punchy). /home will contain large quantities of photos and ripped sound files (FLAC and OGG). Is this feasible?

Any advice, input, experience is appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark Taber :)

[Mat]

that should work pretty well.... I'm having winxp, FC2 and FC3 on one disk, along with several data partitions (ext3, fat32, ntfs) all three OS's may access

Mat

[mrtaber]

Well, after my official full Windows XP disk failed to install (CRC error), I said, "screw it," and just did a full Linux install. I'm ripping and encoding even as we speak :) I've decided that since all the reasons I needed Windows for involved my place of employment, I'll just VPN into my Windows box at work. Thanks for the help.

Mark :)

[james_in_denver]

Though one word of cuation about multiple Linux installs....

be careful of e2labels in your "/boot/grub/grub.conf" file and the "/etc/fstab" file.....

Installing more than one Linux O/S may result in more than one e2label for a partition. That might cause problems for you.

(ps: you can always just replace the e2labels with the actual /dev/hda partition mountpoints)