3 separate f9 installations in 3 partitions?

PH mooraa phmooraa at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 03:30:32 UTC 2008


Hi All,

I want to have 3 separate installations of fedora 9 running in 3 partitions
of single hard drive. The first one is stable f9 image which is "fail safe".
While other twos are going to be experimental (modified f9) and in case they
fail, machine should boot to 1st image.

My hard drive is 30 GB and again I want three clean separate f9
installations. While installing the 1st image, I created three partitions

1) /dev/sda1 - /boot (200 MB)
2) /dev/sda2 - swp (2 GB)
3) /dev/sda3 - / (8 GB)
4) Free unused (20 GB)

once this installation booted properly, I try to create 2 new partitions in
unused space using fdisk. Here is where the issues get in -

1) while creating /sda4 and /sda5 10 GB each, if I choose /sda4 to be
primary, it creates /sda4 fine but does not let me create /sda5 saying
'there can be only 4 primary partitions'
2) if I choose /sda4 to be extended, it is created fine but /sda5 now uses
the same start and end cylinder (I don't know why)

If I use LVM for /sda2 (which has swp and /) then I have two primary
partitions left and can create other 2 partitions properly. I mount them to
/disk2 and /disk3.

except the above partitioning problem, I don't know how to install f9 in
other two partitions. How do I create separate /root for each of the other
two installations? Do I have to create another /boot? How can make swap to
be shared?

Any help would be really appreciated. I am not able to find a straight fwd
howto for such installations.

Thanks in advance,
phm
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