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"I have no idea why you want to install 2 Linuxes in such a small HD but of course it can be done.However, I stronly suggest installing only Linux Lite but that is just my 5 cents "Like I said this old laptop will be mostly for learning purposes. I don't intend to store much data in it maybe some needed programs, some music and a couple of movies.I will use it to surf the web and to go to youtube for ex. and other common sites.This laptop is not my primary laptop (as I have other 2) and is located in a second house."Just modify these rules for 2 distros ( create 4 partitions ) and for those 2 swap partitions, 1048576 sectorsfor each of them is enough."I've been reading that only one swap partition is needed and can be shared by the 2 distros.I already have one distro fully installed across the HD with swap partition.Can't I use Gparted to resize the current distro partition and create other partitions?
HelloNot yet, since I'm having little time at the moment.I intend to dual boot 2 linux distros on my old laptop with 80GB HD space.This will be my "Linux Machine" that I intend to use to learn more about Linux in general.So I'm thinking about this layout:20GB for distro 1 20GB for distro 22/4GB Swap partitionthe rest of the space for a /home folder that can be accessed by either distro.I already have one distro installed, so should I use Gparted to set the partitions and then install distro 2?