Installing 3 distro's on same drive.

[Doug]

On 04/19/2011 04:56 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> On 19/04/2011 22:39, Doug wrote:
/snip/
>> You can only have four primary partitions, but quite
>> a few extended on one primary. sda5 and so on are on the 2nd primary.
>> (Windows likes a primary--I don't know how it would take to an
>> extended. It also likes to be first.)
>>
>> [doug at localhost ~]$ df -h
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on         OS
>> /dev/sda5              12G  3.9G  7.4G  35% /                        
>>      pclos
>> /dev/sda7              11G  574M   10G   6% /home                   
>> pclos
>> /dev/sda9              33G  176M   32G   1% /media/disk           Debian
>> /dev/sda8              28G  5.5G   21G  21% /media/disk-1        Debian
>> /dev/sda13             46G  3.1G   41G   8% /media/disk-2        MINT
>> /dev/sda11             33G  2.8G   29G   9% /media/disk-3        Ubuntu
>> /dev/sda10             20G  4.6G   15G  25% /media/disk-4       XP
>> /dev/sda1              31G   20G   11G  64% /media/disk-5        Ubuntu
>>
>> --doug
>>
> Thanks Doug,
> Windows xp drive is not in my laptop but in my desk drawer.
> I am looking at the responses so far.
> Will decide what to do in a few days.
> Regards
> Johan S
>
As you may have noticed, I mislabeled the last 2--sda1is XP, sda10 is 
Ubuntu.  Sorry.

--doug


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