HD Install :: multiple frugal distro installs on one partition?

I have been using a number of live CD versions of linux and now want to put several of them on my hard drive as frugal installs.

I vaguely recall that more than one linux distribution can be installed with the frugal technique (in separate folders), but cannot find references here or on other linux fora.

Appreciate any info or referrals to info on how to do this without requiring separate partitions for each distribution.

Thanks

Steve

see the wiki page on cheat codes, esp. the knoppix_* ones

Quote (stevesr0 @ June 09 2008,02:48)

No problem doing this; usually the distro itself will tell you what to add to your menu.list file. If you add it to the same directory that DSL is on, you'll still have access to other directories that contain your files.

Thanks to both of you, BUT I am a bit concrete and the WIKI data was a little sparse. Perhaps my original question was vague, so let me try to be more specific as to my confusion/ignorance.

Assume I set up a "traditional" set of (say) three linux partitions, one for the distros, one swap and one for data.

Then, can I put different distros which feature "frugal" type installs into individual "folders" (eg, dsl 4.25 in one, 4.3rc2 in another, puppy 4 in a third, wolvix in a fourth, etc) and then modify the grub list so I can choose which to boot?

Further, can I save/restore customizations for the different dsl distros and automatically run the correct one for each distro by editing the "common" grub file?

Appreciate any comments or referral to info for me to chew upon.

Thanks again,

Steve

My last post was only for DSL frugal installations. I have no idea if those other distributions support the same cheatcodes, but you could check their documentation.

If there are name conflicts and they are different files, you would have to change the name and correspondingly in grub's menu.lst (i.e. different kernels, initrd's, etc.)

I'm not too sure if DSL's default backup/restore options can be used with a subfolder though. You might need to edit some scripts. (Or just have the backup.tar.gz renamed upon shutdown, and placed in .../mydsl/ )

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