[svlug] multibooting distro partition sharing

[bruce coston]

Sorry Larry, I gave up trying to make every distro share nicely over a year ago and just bought another big drive. Looks like the 15 partition limits back and will make your scheme more difficult as you expand. 
From: Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com>
Subject: [svlug] Multiboot (k)ubuntu
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:47:29 -0800
To: svlug at lists.svlug.org

 My desktop box is nominally multiboot with fedora, doze, kubuntu etc. 

It currently theoretically has kubuntu 6, but grub is fubar and it
won't boot into k6. I'd like to install 7.10, but when I've tried to
install kubuntu as a multiboot system, it'll play nice with windows,
but tries to wipe out fedora.

How do I go about installing kubuntu 7.10 on the system so that it
lets windows be on sda1, fedora root on sda7, it puts it's own root on
sda6. I think that I want all the linuxes to share /boot and
/boot/grub but that may take a bit of post installation editing. 

FWIW, the drive layout under FC6 is:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7              29G  4.9G   23G  18% /
/dev/sda10            327G  268G   43G  87% /bigpart
/dev/sda3             935M   79M  809M   9% /boot
tmpfs                1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8              28G  7.6G   19G  30% /fc6_64
/dev/sda6              29G  2.7G   25G  10% /kubuntu6
/dev/sdb4             440G  275G  143G  66% /home
/dev/sda1              25G  5.5G   19G  23% /xp
/dev/sda9              19G  704K   19G   1% /xp2
/dev/sdc1             459G  346G   90G  80% /music...

       
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