How many distributions on a hard disk?

[fayevalentine]

I would like to know if anyone could tell me how many different distributions can I have in one hard disk?
This question is because I tried to install Fedora 2 and Red Hat 9 but when I created the / partition for Red Hat 9 Disk Druid deleted / partition of Fedora 2.

Or maybe I did something wrong during installation?

Thank you.

 

[franklin97355]

you need to read the prompts as you go and you need to create several partitions before you start. Why would you want fedora and RH on the same HD when they are almost the same thing?
(Please no flames. I know they aren't the same but if someone wanted two flavors of linux why not fedora and gentoo or debian?)

 

[jstreich]

There is no limit to the number of OS as long as you have room. (except perhaps with Windows as Windows likes to be the first thing on the drive and can't start past a certian block on the disk)

The key is that you want to make sure to set up your partitions properly... You will want home to be in it's own logical partition so that it is seen by all the distros, all other directories shouldn't over lap. Make sure you use unused space to create partitions for the new distro, and not write over the exsisting ones. Disk Druid doesn't do anything unless it is told to so, but when told to do so, it can be very destructive to any data on partitions you reallocate and format. Care must be taken with any partition tool.