multiple distros on one HDD

[dalo]

Hi everyone,

I am setting up RH, SuSE & Mandrake on my HDD. I have done multi-boot distros before with no probs. It's just a matter of copying the kernal over and editing the lilo.conf file.
But, is there a need for each distro to have it's own /boot?

For three distros, I would be inclined to have them all share the swap, but I think it is possible for them all to share /boot.

What I have done before is something like this (three distros)

/boot 47
/boot 47
/boot 47
/swap 512 (shared)
/ (distro 1) 6000
/ (distro 2) 6000
/ (distro 3) 6000

Should it be okay to have this setup below and install all to the boot?

/boot 100
/swap 512 (shared)
/ (distro 1) 6000
/ (distro 2) 6000
/ (distro 3) 6000

Thanks is advance.

[Hayl]

they can all share the same boot no problem. just remember to name the bzImage files properly so you know what kernel is what.