mobile and gis dev notes

I didn’t have much time blogging for the past week. But since July 18, I am running Debian, Centos and Ubuntu on my desktop.

1. Install CentOS 5.

2. Manually partition as follows:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux (boot)
/dev/sda2 14 3837 30716280 83 Linux (/)
/dev/sda3 3838 4090 2032222+ 82 Linux swap


3. Put bootloader grub on mbr.

4. Reboot.

5. Install Ubuntu

6. Manually partition.

/dev/sda4 4091 19457 123435427+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19446 19457 96390 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19204 19444 1935801 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 15556 19202 29294496 83 Linux


7. Install bootloader on /boot of /dev/sda4

8. Reboot.

9. Install Debian 7

10. Manually partition as follows:

/dev/sda8 4091 4102 96327 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 4103 4343 1935801 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10 4344 7990 29294496 83 Linux


11. Reboot.

Hurray! Key point here is to install the bootloader on mbr first then, installing successive loaders in /boot of other distros.