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Hi, can you advise please, planning to install a 2nd HDD, and want to install 2 Distros of LINUX, Latest Versions of UBUNTU and Open SUSE both 64 bit. I currently have Win8.1 64 bit, no where as good as Win8, on existing 2Tb Drive.

I believe it is possible to install so that both Distros can use same Data Folders??


Also would like to have 1st Boot option as Windows please

Thanks in advance
 
You'll need to install the 3 OS's onto separate partitions and also have a partition for /home (which is what I assume you mean by "same data folders"). That way, the home partition can be mounted to /home whichever Linux boots. Have a look at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot and follow that for starters.

Personally, I'd practice with the second HDD whilst it is blank so you understand what is where and have your head around partitions and how they are mapped under Linux.

Have to ask though: why dual boot Linux AND Windows?
 
Personally I would avoid the potential agro. Why not just run the Linux distributions in a virtual machine? Then share the same data area across the host and the virtual machines. Easy to do and you can install many more flavours.
 
dejongj said:
Personally I would avoid the potential agro. Why not just run the Linux distributions in a virtual machine? Then share the same data area across the host and the virtual machines. Easy to do and you can install many more flavours.
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You are right, but the other way round. Always run windoze in virtual machine on top a stable and secure OS.
arad85 said:
You'll need to install the 3 OS's onto separate partitions and also have a partition for /home (which is what I assume you mean by "same data folders"). That way, the home partition can be mounted to /home whichever Linux boots.
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It is indeed possible to do that and it theory it should work just fine. Or it won't because two distros may have different versions of major software with conflicting configuration files if you are unlucky (and ubuntu does like to modify gnome to the extreme). I don't see much point running 2 similar distros. Just pick one you like more. My advice is ubuntu / debian (-based) distro, because they are more popular and can be "upgraded" to a different flavour quite easily.
 
Lol fair enough :) hey if I wasn't allowed to use OS X as MY stable and secure OS I would likely be running Ubuntu as my desktop of choice.
 
Open Suse if far more stable than ubluntool
 
Ahahah... Now people are fighting about which distro to install!

If you want a stable OS with very few UI bugs, there is only one - Windows ;)

daugirdas said:
It is indeed possible to do that and it theory it should work just fine. Or it won't because two distros may have different versions of major software with conflicting configuration files
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Nope. Partition the disk so that /dev/sda1 is Ubuntu, /dev/sda2 is Open SUSE and /dev/sda4 is /home. When Ubuntu is up, only mount /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda4, when SUSE is up, only mount /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda4. Home area shared, separate boot environments (SUSE never sees Ubuntu and vice versa). The only issue is if you compile your own programs and want to run something compiled in Ubuntu in SUSE. You're likely to get shared library conflicts (been there... done that... got the T ;))
 
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