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Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello all, sorry for such a newbish question, as I should probably know how to properly partition a hard drive, but I really don't know where to start. So what I'm looking to do is install a Debian distro, RHEL, and Arch. Want to go with Mint LMDE, Manjaro, and Fedora. I do not need very much storage, so I don't think space is an issue. I have like a 500+ something GB ssd and the few things that I do need to store are in a cloud. I pretty much use my laptop for browsing, researching, maybe streaming videos, and hopefully more programming and tinkering as I learn more; that's about all... no gaming or no data hoarding.

Do I basically just start off installing one distro on the full hard drive and then when I go to install the others, just choose the "run alongside" option? or would I have to manually partition things out? Any thing to worry about with conflicts between different types of distros, etc.? hoping you kind folks can offer me some simple advice on how to go about this without messing up my system. It SEEMS simple enough and it might be so, but I just don't personally know how to go about it lol. Thanks alot!!

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... I guess it should work but you will end up with looots of partitions and pretty sure you have no idea what is what.

But if you plan on nuking it in the end, here is how to do it:

install a Distro to full hard drive
use some partition manager like KDE-Partitionmanager (the best of all) or Gparted and resize the big ext4/btrfs/zfs whatever storage partition as small as you want
install the next distro into the empty space
shrink that distros storage again, repeat

And please report if some crazy stuff happens with Grub or if you get secureboot working!

[–] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I utilize this route, do you believe it'd be more trouble than anything or should it hypothetically work just fine?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It would be trouble and have no reeal purpose, but it shooould be really possible!