Dual booting without repartitioning

[C Hamel]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:36, Nathan Krasnopoler wrote:
> *I have a HP computer with about 85 gigabytes free on the main
> partition, and 5 gigabytes being used on a second partition for
> recovery.  Is there a way to dual boot Ubuntu on the 5 gig partition,
> and still use files on the other one with linux?*
I don't see why not, if I understand what you're attempting.  Here's my 
scheme:

I have one 19GB partition that was formerly /home for Gentoo; I have one 10GB 
partition containing kubuntu Breezy 5.10 w/KDE-3.5.0; I have one 5GB 
partition containing Dapper Flight4.  Both Breezy & Dapper utilize the 
19GB /home partition from their own respective /home/user partions via 
symlinks to the main data directories, while each maintains its own skeleton 
directories.  Those skeletons which are common --i.e., .gnupg, 
moneydance,xine, etc.-- are also symlinked to the original /home partition.

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2344    18828148+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2345        2438      755055   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3            2439        3655     9775552+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            3656        7296    29246332+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            3656        4507     6843658+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            4508        7296    22402611   83  Linux

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