Subj : Re: TriBoot System Question
To   : comp.os.linux,alt.comp.linux
From : Mutant
Date : Sun Sep 19 2004 06:36 pm

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:47:16 +0000, Lenard wrote:

> 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 ;)


You don't need to do that as SuSE will do it all for you during set-up.



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