(06-11-2018, 11:22 PM)JesusLinux link Wrote: "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 sectors
for 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?
I don't recommend having the old distro there and since it will be only for learning purposes, I suggest that you
save your data from the old distro and do two fresh installations - about 39 + 0.5 Gb for both of them.
So, your disk should have 2 big root partitions, both about 39 Gb and two swap partitions both about 0.5 Gb.
Just create them before actual installations. Some distros may put a trojan horse called "btrfs" on your disk
without even asking. Btrfs is not ready yet IMHO, I would not install anything to alpha/beta state -filesystem.