Installing 2 Distros?

[swoodnj]

I currently have WinXP on hda1, which is one big FAT32 partition (30 GB). RH 8 is installed on hdb. Grub is installed in the mbr of hda1. Here's what I would like to do:

Trash WinXP and install another distro on the first HD. I'm hoping that I can keep Grub intact and have the choice to pick between distros on startup. I have no data I want to save on the WinXP partition, but really want to keep the RH drive intact. If you need specifics, the second distro is Suse 8 Pro. I have a couple of USB devices that worked with Suse that won't with RH8. So I figure rather than use Windows let me load up Suse.
Any advice/tips would be greatly appreciated!

Steve W

[ashoksagar]

In redhat, copy your /boot/grub/menu.lst file ; what your really need is the lines following title Red Hat...
Now when installing the other distro choose to install grub as your boot loader. After booting into your new distro just add the title Red Hat... lines to your menu.lst there and you are done. The grub prompt will show both redhat and suse as choices when booting up.
BTW, why do you want to get rid of windows XP ? It is a great os. You have enough space on your hd to let it co-exist with linux.

[fancypiper]

Sure. Just read the grub mini HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html). It's pretty easy IMHO.