Hello all, sorry for such a newbish question, as I should probably know how to properly partition a hard drive, but I really don’t know where to start. So what I’m looking to do is install a Debian distro, RHEL, and Arch. Want to go with Mint LMDE, Manjaro, and Fedora. I do not need very much storage, so I don’t think space is an issue. I have like a 500+ something GB ssd and the few things that I do need to store are in a cloud. I pretty much use my laptop for browsing, researching, maybe streaming videos, and hopefully more programming and tinkering as I learn more; that’s about all… no gaming or no data hoarding.
Do I basically just start off installing one distro on the full hard drive and then when I go to install the others, just choose the “run alongside” option? or would I have to manually partition things out? Any thing to worry about with conflicts between different types of distros, etc.? hoping you kind folks can offer me some simple advice on how to go about this without messing up my system. It SEEMS simple enough and it might be so, but I just don’t personally know how to go about it lol. Thanks alot!!
That’s my bad, I tend to kinda lump cloud, VMs, and containers together and sometimes use catchall phrases. I know they’re all different and I should clarify.
No worries. For easy reference:
Cloud: someone else’s computer
VM: walled-off compartment of your PC
container: not-so-walled-off compartment of your PC.
Perfect! thank you. And I always thought containers and VMs were opposite, like a container is more ingrained into the distro. TIL!
So, with a VM everything inside it runs on a completely separate software stack completely different OS, Kernel, etc. It’s very much pretending to be another machine.
With a container, it’s running from the same kernel as the host, and the compartmentalisation is handled by the kernel basically. By default they can’t really see each other, but the kernel can see both.
