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