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[Haggis]

ok guys i need your help

I have a 128Gb SSD as my boot drive on which Fedora 18 is installed

I am adding a second drive a 500gb HDD to the system

I am going to partition this so i can use 300gb of this for backup and storage

The other 190odd ish i am going to partition into 20gb partiton and install multiple Linux distros on them so i can use them to test my scripts i am writing

Cant do this in a VM as only got 4gb ram and it runs like **** lol

so i will have say

300Gb Data
20Gb Arch Linux
20Gb Ubuntu
20Gb Manjaro
20Gb Mint
20Gb Debian


etc etc


when i do each install on the partitions will Grub on fedora Drive pick up each install and have a line for them or do i have to do something fancy to make them all work?

[bman]

I have never installed more then one Linux Distro, but if it's even a bit similar, I know in the past my Ubuntu Grub would over take my Windows boot manager every time.

[xorangekiller]

Fedora will probably automatically add the others to your grub.cfg if you run sudo update-grub after you boot back into Fedora. Just make sure you opt out of writing the bootloader to the MBR when you install the other distributions! I'm not entirely sure if update-grub is Debian-specific, but if Fedora has it, it might also have the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file which you can use to manually add any distros that are not autodetected by update-grub.

[tim_s]

What are you looking to do with these installations?

4 GB is not a lot by Windows standards but for Linux I find the operating system a lot more flexible in this area.

2 GB for host / VM server
1 GB for client
1 GB for heavy operations

20 GB is also a lot for a machine that is not looking to install anything along side it.

[n_K]

Why not just get the ISOs for these distributions and run them from the ISO via GRUB2? Means you don't need 20 odd partitions

[tim_s]

n_K, on 31 January 2013 - 22:27, said:

Why not just get the ISOs for these distributions and run them from the ISO via GRUB2? Means you don't need 20 odd partitions

To some extent Haggis will still need to setup a "writeable" partition - can be on the same mount location for them all.

[Haggis]

I will give VM a try first but for example Fedora 18 runs like **** in a VM lol

and also i want to try and install arch outwith a VM so i can try get past my networking block lol

[win2k3man]

Why would you bother most of those distros and are all debian based lol

[Detection]

Haggis, on 01 February 2013 - 09:01, said:

I will give VM a try first but for example Fedora 18 runs like **** in a VM lol

and also i want to try and install arch outwith a VM so i can try get past my networking block lol

This guy managed 145 distros on one machine, maybe you can find some pointers here

http://forums.justli...systems-in-a-PC

[medhunter]

No Mageia !!!.I am surprised, it is getting alot of popularity in the past few months, with a big release perhaps, in April

[tim_s]

Haggis, on 01 February 2013 - 09:01, said:

I will give VM a try first but for example Fedora 18 runs like **** in a VM lol

and also i want to try and install arch outwith a VM so i can try get past my networking block lol

1: What virtualization software are you using?
2: What is your computers spec?
3: What is the usage scenario?

Let us start there.

[Colin McGregor]

Haggis, on 31 January 2013 - 15:31, said:

ok guys i need your help

I have a 128Gb SSD as my boot drive on which Fedora 18 is installed

I am adding a second drive a 500gb HDD to the system

I am going to partition this so i can use 300gb of this for backup and storage

The other 190odd ish i am going to partition into 20gb partiton and install multiple Linux distros on them so i can use them to test my scripts i am writing

Cant do this in a VM as only got 4gb ram and it runs like **** lol

so i will have say

300Gb Data
20Gb Arch Linux
20Gb Ubuntu
20Gb Manjaro
20Gb Mint
20Gb Debian


etc etc


when i do each install on the partitions will Grub on fedora Drive pick up each install and have a line for them or do i have to do something fancy to make them all work?

why not do different types of distros. Debian, mint, Ubuntu and manjaro are basically the same thing. Why not 1 partition for Ubuntu, and 1 for Gentoo. Then when you boot into a different drive it will actually feel like your jumping into something different.

[Haggis]

tim_s, on 01 February 2013 - 16:17, said:

1: What virtualization software are you using?
2: What is your computers spec?
3: What is the usage scenario?

Let us start there.

1: What virtualization software are you using?
Oracle Virtual Box

2: What is your computers spec?
Intel T1600 Dual Core,
4GB RAM,
128gb SSD
160 GB Hard Drive,

3: What is the usage scenario?
I will jsut be using them to boot into to test different window managers, de's and setups for testing my system script

[guitmz]

you'll need to manually update grub to genereate anote cfg file which will detect all the distros... in other hand, you can reinstall grub at your last distro installation, which will detect all the previous

[tim_s]

Colin McGregor, on 01 February 2013 - 16:22, said:

why not do different types of distros. Debian, mint, Ubuntu and manjaro are basically the same thing. Why not 1 partition for Ubuntu, and 1 for Gentoo. Then when you boot into a different drive it will actually feel like your jumping into something different.

Gentoo, I am not sure this is the overall goal. From the list I assume that Haggis is trying to use popular distros and I am sure Haggis will clarify this. Not only is Gentoo is far from the top on the popularity list but also might become a burden if we are stuck with making virtualization function on the easier installations.