Gettin a new hard drive WOOHOO

[Doogee]

Ok ive suffered with this 3 gig hard drive long enough.

I am getting an 80gig 7200rpm Western Digital in a few days, and the day i get it will be OS install MANIA!

First maybe 5 gigs for win98se, comes in handy since i dont know anything about local networking etc.

At the moment my distro of choice is Slackware but i will want Red hat and Mandrake on there aswell, just to, well, have them

Whats the best way to set this up, things like order of installing the OS, which linux to make boot disk for and stuff like that.

Thanks a lot!

[Calum]

put windows on first, and make a bootdisk for any and all OSs you install, and make a new bootdisk if you install that OS on a different numbered partition.

that's my only advice, have fun!

oh yes, and also, if i were you, i'd make your 3GB drive into /home so that you can safely wipe your OS hard drive without having to back everything up, although you probably will want to back up regularly anyway if your 3GB drive really is oops like you say.

[Doogee]

nah this 3 gig HDD has been going strong for maybe 5 years now, its pretty trusty little thing.
ok well i like the look of red hats grub menu so i think ill use that as the bootloader even though slack is my ``premier" distro.

[X11]

In red-hat 8.0 it does not matter where the partions are, the bootdisk still works, and so does grub, as long as the partition labels are still there.

You can use your slackware cd to boot other os's
eg: bare.i root=/dev/hda3 noinitrd ro
(actually use usb.i for mandrake and redhat, and slack if you have a usb mouse.

[Calum]

ah! that's the issue indeed. partition labels annoy me. why not call a spade a spade? for example, i'd rather have my OS think of /dev/hda5 as /dev/hda5 than as LABEL=/ because you never know when you'll shift / and even if the label is intact, it's no longer descriptive.

[Tux]

nah this 3 gig HDD has been going strong for maybe 5 years now, its pretty trusty little thing.
ok well i like the look of red hats grub menu so i think ill use that as the bootloader even though slack is my ``premier" distro.

Why not just 'borrow' RedHat's splash.xpm.gz?

[Doogee]

well when i get it you can all help me to do this stuf

[Calum]

i saw a good tutorial somewhere for how to get a special LFS grub pixmap installed, but have not tried it yet (not sure if it'll work on mandrake, where there is no pixmap by default)