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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 Question: What do you actually want to achieve?

Do you want a rolling, semi-rolling or stable releases? More tested or even LTS packages, or the latest?

[–] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Uhmmm so it would be interesting to learn about rolling releases and thats where my choice of manjaro could fit in. Sometimes I simply get bored of debian/Ubuntu but its what I'm most familiar with. The goal is to learn and USE other distros. Not just browse or hop around but I want to use the three main distro types all on one system. I want things to remain in tact like a normal workstation installed on your desktop. Idk much about virtualization, but I'm under the impression that they wipe your disk or a certain distro clean after each use. I do NOT want that.

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[–] Dotdev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Have you tried distrobox ? That would sound more reasonable.

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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!

[–] redprog@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All these people saying don't do it - clearly, they're trying to learn something and are not necessarily after a fully usable, encrypted production system. Instead of telling them it's too complicated, we should encourage to play around and figure it out, so in the process maybe they find out on their own why this configuration might not make any sense in most situations.

So @op, just go for it, you're going to learn a lot from this!

[–] ultra@discuss.online 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really a solution to what you need, but you should consider distros other than manjaro, it does some shady stuff, has ddos'ed the AUR multiple times (even though the AUR is "unsupported") and let the security certificates for their site expire (their solution: to turn back your clock to update the system). You should try endeavour instead.

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