PCLinuxOS Day 12 - Triple Boot Attempt
Last friday my car broke down. This in itself has nothing to do with the series about PCLinuxOS, but it did leave me with a couple of unplanned spare hours. A perfect opportunity to change the operating systems on my laptop. I wanted to upgrade Ubuntu to 7.10, to install Sabayon Linux and to install PCLinuxOS. Yes, this was going to be a triple boot laptop.
Preparations
Before upgrading Ubuntu to 7.10 I first had to clean up the hard drive. Contrary to my own advice I had installed Ubuntu 7.04 without a separate /home partition. This necessitated copying some folders to an external harddrive. I then designed a new partition table. I kept the hidden restore partition (sda1) in case I want to sell the laptop on a future date. The entire table became this:
sda1 - fat32 (the hidden restore partition)
sda5 - swap
sda6 - /home
sda7 - Ubuntu 7.10
sda8 - Sabayon Linux
sda9 - PCLinuxOS
This layout will give me the least headaches when upgrading in the future or replacing one or all of the distributions, since it wouldn’t change the numbers on swap and /home. I had no plans of sharing /home with Sabayon Linux or PCLinuxOS, but it would be mounted as a /data folder for each of them.
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