tri booting

[Gary]

Hello all, I imagine this question has been asked and answered before, but I can't seem to find an answer. I currently dual boot SUSE 9.1 pro and Windows xp on hda (weird thing is SUSE recognizes it as hde, but that's no matter - I think). When Fedora core 2 final is released next week I would like to install it on a second hard drive. Is there a way to add it to my existing GRUB? I used to have core 2 test three sharing the primary drive with Windows, but when I received SUSE 9.1 I deleted the Fedora partition and installed SUSE. I imagine I could write the Fedora GRUB to a floppy and boot from that, but then would have to re-write the GRUB floppy everytime there is a new kernel? (One of the things I liked about Fedora was the ability to have a very beeding edge system. If the Nvidia driver issue were to be resolved I would probably use Fedora exclusively) And if I may ask another question, I read somewhere that Fedora would by default write a swap partition to my existing Linux drive, is there a way to keep that from happening? Thanks in advance for any and all replies - Gary

[fjleal]

I think the Fedora installer (Anaconda) will update your Grub configuration for you during the install. If it doesn't, you can always add another entry in grub.conf for the new system by hand. If I were you, I'd backup grub.conf before trying...

About your second question, the swap partition Fedora uses is a new one, created in unformatted disk space. You can specify where do you want it during the installation (I think).

[Counterspy]

You will need to edit the Grub file manually to add a third distribution, AFAIK.

Counterspy

[Rebmob]

Originally Posted by Counterspy

You will need to edit the Grub file manually to add a third distribution, AFAIK.

Counterspy

Yea i know but im not sure what to type.

[Rebmob]

Originally Posted by fjleal

I think the Fedora installer (Anaconda) will update your Grub configuration for you during the install. If it doesn't, you can always add another entry in grub.conf for the new system by hand. If I were you, I'd backup grub.conf before trying...

About your second question, the swap partition Fedora uses is a new one, created in unformatted disk space. You can specify where do you want it during the installation (I think).

Yea but fedoras installed allready and ubuntu, i just cant access ubuntu. ONLY fedora and windows xp. Ubuntu doesnt show up, and im not sure what I should add to the conf file.
And what is the line i would add to the fstab to make my slave drive show up. I just started using linux again and i forgot a bunch of stuff. -.-

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by Rebmob

Yea but fedoras installed allready and ubuntu, i just cant access ubuntu. ONLY fedora and windows xp. Ubuntu doesnt show up, and im not sure what I should add to the conf file.
And what is the line i would add to the fstab to make my slave drive show up. I just started using linux again and i forgot a bunch of stuff. -.-

Rebmob, I answered your question here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=167783. That thread will probably benefit Gary also.

[Rebmob]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Rebmob, I answered your question here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=167783. That thread will probably benefit Gary also.

Yep check out glennzo's post in the thread he just stated. 'Works perfect, he explains it well'