I divided the drive into three primary partitions and installed Xandros on
the first one. Then I tried to install Mandrake on the second partition, but
it saw the first '/' mount point and wanted to use that. I set another '/'
mount point up on the second partition and installed Mandrake to that one,
but got errors saying I had duplicate mount points. After the install
Mandrake wouldn't boot and I think it was trying to mount the first Xandros
'/' and expecting Mandrake to be there. Kernel panic and freeze.

After that I reinstalled Mandrake and this time named the second mount point
'/mandrake'. I didn't really think that would work (and didn't), but I tried
anyway. My drive is set up with three primary partitions, first formatted
with reiserfs (the Xandros install) and the second and third are ext3. I
would like to use Grub to control everything, but I think that Xandros had
put it's own version of LILO in the mbr of my primary master.

I'm thinking that I'm not setting up the partition table correctly in the
first place or that I'm not formatting the partitions right. For Xandros, I
just set up a '/' mount point and the installation created the entire linux
directory for me under that. Also, it formatted the partition to reiserfs. I
was hoping that Mandrake would do the same for me under the second partition
and that I could use Grub to select which one to boot to. Maybe I need to
explicitly create the entire partition directory for Mandrake. But that
still doesn't fix my problem of what to name the second primary partition to
avoid having duplicate mount points.

Any help is really appreciated and I'll be googling around and experimenting
some more in the meantime. After all, this is a learning experience for me
and that was really the whole idea of doing this.

Thx,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bart
Garst
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 6:50 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: Linux Multi-Boot


>
> I've got a 60 gig drive (secondary master) that I split equally three ways
> with the partioning utility that Xandros uses. I would like to install
> Xandros 2.0 on one part, Mandrake 10.0 on another and RH8 on the
> third. I've
> also got a separate drive (primary master) that's laden with XP Pro. For
> now, that's my main install.
>
> My question is, basically, what's the best way to get three linux distros
> installed on one hdd? And still be able to access my XP drive.
> I've tried a
> couple of ways, but haven't had any luck. TIA for any help any of
> you might
> be able to offer.

Could you provide some more details? More specifically, what did you try and
how did it not work?

What you want is possible, and it shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish.

Bart

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