Installing/booting multiple linux distros

[chillz]

I currently have a dual boot setup of RH 9 and XP Pro. How do I (if its practical and/ or advisable) to add other Linux distros to this configuration? Would I need to create separate partitions for the other distros? My Linux partitions are currently: / (root), /boot and swap which together add up to just under 10 Gigs. XP occupies about 23Gigs in an NTFS partition and there is a 7 Gig FAT32 partion for sharing stuff between the two OS's.

I have only been using Linux for just over a month and have been reading plenty of good things about the various distros. RH 9 is pretty impressive but I would not mind trying some of the others. (P.S. I tried Mandrake 9.1 (looks and works great) before RH9 but it freezes the system upon shutdown).

Any assistance would be most welcomed.

---chillz---

[mdwatts]

You would need to free up space for at least one more partition. That would be '/' root for the new distro. Multiple distros can share the swap partition.

Install the new distro, select to install it's bootloader into it's own root '/' partition and then add a entry to Redhat's bootloader config in /boot to allow booting the new distro.