Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist

[Brian Cluff]

For triple booting, you'll get the biggest bang for the buck by going 
with at least 4 partitions.

1) A partition for disto A
2) B partition for disto B
3) C swap partition that is shared between both distros
4) D home partition that is shared between both distros, this should be 
your biggest partition by far.

This setup will allow you to actually use the most amount of space on 
your hard drive as well as share your personal directories between the 
distros.

Brian Cluff

On 02/26/2012 03:51 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
> Even after having done several Linux installations (some a lot more
> challenging than others), I am still a bit intimidated by it.
>
> Now, I'm about to undertake another and I hope the PLUG brain trust can
> provide some guidance, perhaps a concise installation checklist for this
> next attempt.  I have a box with win-xp installed on a 100-gig HD and I
> need the following:
>
> 1. How (most efficiently) to shrink and repartition for a dual boot with
> xp on perhaps 20 gig and the rest for installing two Linux distros.
>
> 2. I've installed PCLinuxOS several times and I (by far) prefer the older
> version with KDE 3.5, so I want to put it on one set of partitions using
> about 20-gig.
>
> 3. On the rest, I want to install whatever Redhat based distro might work
> best with Virtual Box (which I have never been able to get to work
> before).
> Some have recommended Cent OS (I've been told that there is a KDE 3.5
> version available).
>
> Any guidance to make this as concise, easy, and efficient as possible for
> a 20-year perpetual "newbie" user would be extremely appreciated. ;)
>
>
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