Subj : Re: TriBoot System Question
To   : comp.os.linux,alt.comp.linux
From : Lenard
Date : Sun Sep 19 2004 03:47 pm

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:28:15 -0400, jch wrote:

> I've had a dual boot system (XP and FEdora) for a few months now so I'm
> still pretty new to Linux. I'd like to experiment with another distro
> (Suse).  Are there any special tricks or concerns in adding a 3rd OS? I
> guess the current Linux partition (Fedora) contains the grub.conf which
> gives me my 2 boot-up choices. Is getting this file configured to add
> SUSE pretty straight forward? Thanks.

Yep, adding the option to boot into SuSE is a simple edit (as root) of the
/boot/grub/grub.conf (FC2) file.

You can share the swap partition between both distro's also. Just make
sure that the installation of SuSE does not overwrite your currently
installed OS's. Also make sure that that SuSE does not install a boot
loader, you already have two ;)


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