Installing second Linux distro?

[fvs]

I presently have fedora 5 on my 80 gig HD by itself, I installed it with auto partion, Now I want to install Ubunto
as a second distro and keep Fedora 5.. When I go to install it, I want it as the second partion but I don't know how to make it the second on the HD, I don't understand which /dev/hda is the Fedora and swap drives. Need some help.

[pparks1]

If you went with the defaults, you are going to have to use a utility to shrink your original partition as the default will use the entire drive. I think a lot of people use parted

You can see what is currently used with the df command. Open up a terminal and type;
df -h.

From there, you can also run fdisk -l /dev/hda and see the various partitions. If you are set with defaults, you are going to see something like a 100MB drive for /boot and the rest dedicated to the LVM that your swap and / partitions are sitting on. You can then run lvdisplay to show statistics about your logical volumes.

[fvs]

Hi ppark1,
Here's the problem, I built this box(details below) and installed win xp as the default OS,
Then installed Fedora 5 and chose automatic partitioning, Then after a week or so I wanted Fedora to be the only OS on the drive, so I reinstalled Fedora, this time I choose the option to Remove all partitions on this system,That is my only OS, Now I'm wanting to see other linux distros on this machine, but I can't install them, went to install ubunto live disk and got error message about hardware and couldn't install it, So I choose Cento and it had error message also, Susse. All of these distros are on DVD, But my Fedora 5 runs floorlessly rock solid? How do I find out the problem? Thanks. fvs

My linux box is:
AMD Sempron 64 2800, Biostar TForce 6100 1GB Corsair, 16X Liteon DVD burner, 80GB Seagate IDE, Realtec sound card, 17" CTR IBM.

[digen]

You will need unpartitioned space to install further distros.For that you will have to resize your existing FC5 partitions & then install any other distro.

Boot from Knoppix Live CD,it has Gparted which can be used to resize partitions.

[JN4OldSchool]

Or... if you dont mind reinstalling FC5 yet again do it with manual partitioning using only part of your drive, 20GB would be about right. Then, when it's installed you can yum QTParted and partition the free space up for your other distros. You can share the swap space between all them and create a common /home if you want.

edit: actually, you probably wont even need QTParted, just use the installer of each distro. I will add though that you should get a live Linux CD as suggested for cases like this and also to play with your grub menu list for multi-booting. Just makes life easier.

[fvs]

Two questions?
1) How do you resize partions?
2) What commands do I give?
Thanks

[digen]

As I said earlier using a Knoppix Live CD which has Gparted which is a GUI based program you can easily resize partitions.Check these screenshots : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

But the above is not the only method,I suggested what has worked for me in the past.

[fvs]

Thanks i'll get the live CD and format my drive. Thanks once more.
fvs