On Oct 14, 10:36 pm, John Goche <johngoch... RemoveThis @googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have managed to set up Vista + Ubuntu but I have
> left some space at the end of the hard drive because
> I want to install Fedora as well (mainly so that I can
> develop both .deb and .rpm packages for what I think
> are the two most popular Linux distributions around).
>
> So, what I wanted to ask, I already have a boot loader
> so I am not sure whether there will be any conflict or
> whether there is anything to watch out for when I
> install Fedora. Currently my hard disk consists of
> (1) a recovery partition for Vista (2) a proper Vista
> (3) a / partition for Ubuntu containing everything
> (4) a 4GB swap partition and (5) free space at
> the end of the disk I have set aside for Fedora.
>
> Now the boot loader is on partition (3) but I
> think if I install Fedora and do a single /
> partition as I did for Ubuntu then I will
> be getting a second boot loader but
> I only need one.
I feel it should not be a problem . Boot Loaders like grub (default
in most of the distributions) are intelligent. If you install fedora ,
then the boot loader for fedora will detect the other operating
systems and it will ask you whether you want to add the other OS to
the boot list . You can also avoid installing the boot loader and
just install fedora. Later boot up using Ubuntu and modify the grub
configuration file to add information about the other OS that you have
just installed . This should help you to have 3 os in the boot list
menu.
Of course safe method is to run the other OS using virtualization .
Hope this helps
>
> Suggestions welcome,
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> John Goche
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