Partitioning scheme for 2 distros on 1 hard disk

**net_benjo** · 08-31-2004, 02:49 PM

Hi all,

I'm very new to linux...been using it for about a month now...

I have 2 questions...I've tried looking for answers but still a bit unclear.

1) Say I want Knoppix and Suse on my second hard drive. Half for one and half for the other.

Before i do anything i know i must partition the drive...so, as a newb i do the following

hdb1 32M boot partition
hdb2 500M linux swap
hdb3 40G linux (for Suse root )
hdb4 40G linux (for Knoppix root)

Will this work and would an experienced linux user have done the same.
How can 2 distros share have common boot partition?

2) I've had konppix as a single installationa and my question is about apt-get...

i like nano editor so i figure I'll just do the following:

#apt-get install nano

I get an error message in german! so I can't even figure out what i'm doing wrong....I've checked my etc/apt/sources.list file that it has some mirrors in it.. I didn't add any mirrros I'm just going with default ones..

from everything i've read about apt-get....the above should work....

any help on the 2 questions is appreciated

cheers,
B

**hardware_bum** · 08-31-2004, 04:57 PM

Your method for installing nano should work OK. I did exactly the same thing with no problems. Maybe check your sources.list. I recall there was a bad entry on a debian server that had to be fixed. Check the forum archives and you should find it. There are some ways to automatically update sources.list but I've not been able to get them to work.

Don't know anything about your partitioning question, sorry.

**net_benjo** · 08-31-2004, 07:17 PM

thanks hardware_bum...I'll look into sources.list

now, do you happen to know why my apt-get error messages are in german?

I installed knppix 3.6 just a week ago....is there a way to fix this?

ben

**net_benjo** · 08-31-2004, 07:18 PM

thanks hardware_bum...I'll look into sources.list

now, do you happen to know why my apt-get error messages are in german?

I installed knppix 3.6 just a week ago....is there a way to fix this?

ben

**baldyeti** · 08-31-2004, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by net_benjo

now, do you happen to know why my apt-get error messages are in german?

Check your LANG environment variable: "echo $LANG". It probably says DE_de. You can override it in /etc/environment. KDE has its own intl settings which you should also check (since all programs started from the GUI will inherit from it).