Luis,
I believe now you're getting a bit confused. Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader)
is just that - a boot loader. This is the small program that resides in the
first sector of your harddrive that takes over the job of launching your
actual operating system. It has nothing to do with the actual partitioning of
your drive.
Of course, once you have both SuSE and FC3 (or whatever else) installed, you
should set up Grub to give you a nice menu when you boot up, where you can
select which distribution you'd like to boot into.
- Marcel

Luis.Moreira@jet.uk (Luis Moreira) wrote:

> Hi Guys, 
> I just had a look at GRUB, will this do the job? Is it better or worse?
> 
> Best regards
> 		Luis
> 
> Luis Moreira
> luis.moreira@jet.uk
> tel. 01235464615
> JET PSU Department
> UKAEA Culham Division
> J20/1/55, Culham Science Centre
> Abingdon
> Oxfordshire
> OX14 3DB
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of marcel@carrietech.com
> Sent: 07 September 2005 11:23
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT]Linux
> 
> Whether or not parted is installed already depends on your distribution
> and
> the choices you made during the installation. Any distribution worth its
> salt
> will have it available as a package though.
> Normally, people use fdisk for partitioning, but that doesn't
> resize/move
> partitions, so parted (or qtparted, if you want something graphical) are
> the
> only choices pretty much. I do know that Knoppix has qtparted, so that
> might
> be a good way to go for you. That way, you don't have to worry about
> unmounting a partition on a live install. Just pop in the knoppix disk,
> check
> the partitions (fsck.*) and run qtparted.
> To get a second drive going, you need to partition it (fdisk or parted)
> and
> then format the partitions (mkfs.*). Then you can go ahead and mount
> them
> (directly or via /etc/fstab).
> - Marcel
> 
> Luis.Moreira@jet.uk (Luis Moreira) wrote:
> 
> > Hi Marcel,
> > The partition checkers you mentioned, are they included on the
> > distribution or I have to downloaded them?
> > Is this the normal program (Parted) that everyone normally uses?
> > Another question you may be able to answer, to install a new hard
> drive
> > is just a question of mounting it or it involves something else?
> > Thanks for the help 
> > Best regards
> > 		Luis
> > 
> > Luis Moreira
> > luis.moreira@jet.uk
> > tel. 01235464615
> > JET PSU Department
> > UKAEA Culham Division
> > J20/1/55, Culham Science Centre
> > Abingdon
> > Oxfordshire
> > OX14 3DB
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
> Behalf
> > Of marcel@carrietech.com
> > Sent: 07 September 2005 09:11
> > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> > Subject: Re: [OT]Linux
> > 
> > Sorry, that's "parted". partman is the debian installer version.
> > 
> > marcel@carrietech.com wrote:
> > 
> > > GNU partman lets you resize most partitions. Careful though, make
> sure
> > there's
> > > no (hidden) corruption. Run partition checkers on everything
> > beforehand.
> > > - Marcel
> > > 
> > > Luis.Moreira@jet.uk (Luis Moreira) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Guys,
> > > > I need to install two Linux OS on the same machine I am running
> FC3
> > at
> > > > the moment but I want to install SUSE 9.3 also.
> > > > Is there a Linux software or command that allows me to do that,
> > > > something along the lines of partition magic?
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards
> > > > 		Luis
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 




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