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#1 Christopholofigus

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 08:48 AM

Ok, here is my Multi-boot thus far:

XP 32
XP 64
Vista RC2 32
Vista RC1 64 (i don't have the RC2 iso of it)

I just installed those on my new Seagate 320gb drive.
Now i want to install SuSE 10.2 64, Kubuntu 64, Xubuntu 64 on my WD 80gb drive. Wow, what a list of OS's huh?

My Partition are set up for:
20gb for XP 32
44gb for XP 64
45gb for Vista 32
45gb for Vista 64
148gb for a "Personal" data storage drive

I'm going to let the linux installers auto configure my linux OS's since i am not too keen on the workings for the needs of them.

Oh, i also turned my old EIDE WD 250gb hdd into a external hdd using a Vantec NexStar 3 metallic glossy red enclosure. I runs great and looks good as well. w00t!

Wish me luck on the install of the linux OS's. I am going to install Xubuntu first, then follow with Kubuntu and finish with SuSE 10.2 (i am still downloading SuSE and Xubuntu right now). I hope i can get it all to work out.

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 05:04 PM

best of luck with that, C :bluerip:

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 05:07 PM

Wow, you are a much braver soul then I am!!

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 10:21 PM

Looks ok, I hope you know how to manually configure grub! :bluerip:

Might be an idea for me.... Xubuntu (overwrite with Enlightenment), another try at Gentoo, Suse, and some other one... like... erm... gimme a good one! (not Vista.... except if you have an 64bit version for me for free :dribble: )

And give them all the same /home partition :dribble: saves a lot of hassle with settings between distro's!

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 10:22 PM

living on the edge of sanity :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :bluerip:

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 07:41 AM

Well, i had them going great. XP x86 and x64 ran fine, as did Vista x86 and x64. Then i got Xubuntu and Kubuntu running, and got Xubuntu running dual head and decided to get greedy. I wanted to run open SuSE 10.2 as well.

Well, ummm....kind f--ked it all up. :storm:

Now i am going to reinstall all my Windows OS's on my Seagate 320gb hdd...then i will install all my Linux distros on my Western Digital 80gb hdd. Oh, and i will be doing keeping them blind from each drive (install all Windows with my 80gb drive not hooked up). Then i will do the same for all 3-5 linux distros (i want Mandrake and Fedora now too) by keeping them blind to my other hdd while installing. Then once i get everything done right, all i have to do when i boot up is change my boot hdd in my bios and i'm set. Then i won't have to worry about what happens when i mess something up with Linux (which i will do a lot of). It will just mess up that boot hdd, not my other. Can you see my vision?

Oh, i wonder if Sun has a free distro as well? :scara:

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 08:02 AM

View PostChristopholofigus, on Jan 11 2007, 01:41 AM, said:

Oh, i wonder if Sun has a free distro as well? :storm:
Indeed they do. OpenSolaris.

If you want to make things really interesting, I can name a few other lesser-known free OSes you can try to install. (I like to mess around with alternative OSes in virtual machines...)

Off the top of my head:
Syllable
Haiku
Darwin
Menuet
GNU/Hurd
Minix
ReactOS
FreeDOS
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, DesktopBSD, PC-BSD


If you can get all those to boot with Grub on real hardware, you'll be an instant geek legend. :blush:

Let me know if you need any more and I'll tell you some more obscure ones. :scara:

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 11:34 AM

Thats what i call a real MULTI boot Christo ! :crazy: :storm:

I am thinking of changing my multi-boot on my main rig to:

Windows XP MCE (32-bit)*
Windows Server R2 (64-bit)
Windows Vista (64-bit)
Kubuntu 6.06 (64-bit)

* Just to handle some stuff not supported on x64 :blush:

My second rig multi-boot :

Windows XP (32-bit)
Windows Vista (32-bit)

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 03:32 PM

You guys are totally nuts!!! I say 3 OS's is the most you would ever need on one machine!! Personally, I have three right now but once I get Vista I will most likely on do two!

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 04:19 PM

no we ain't....

There's much difference between OS'ses, even in the Linux world, distro's differ and have it's pro's and con's

so... having at least 10 installed is just handy!

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 10:00 PM

Im likely gonna get Server 64 Longhorn goin as soon as theres a 64 bit compatible Partition Manager app like PM.

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Posted 11 January 2007 - 10:04 PM

View PostBlueScreenOfDeath, on Jan 11 2007, 04:00 PM, said:

Im likely gonna get Server 64 Longhorn goin as soon as theres a 64 bit compatible Partition Manager app like PM.
I have not done it but I was told that you can run PM from dos an still use it on x64 I would assume that would work with any 64bit O/S

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 04:46 AM

"If you can get all those to boot with Grub on real hardware, you'll be an instant geek legend."(brewin)

geez, no kidding. I built my machine with vista 64 in mind and never made the grade.

Good goin' :storm:

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Posted 12 January 2007 - 12:47 PM

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Im likely gonna get Server 64 Longhorn goin as soon as theres a 64 bit compatible Partition Manager app like PM.

Oh yes ! Longhorn Server Beta 3 is close and will be public...... i might include it in my multi-boot too... :davex:

..........PM should work with XP x64 :yahoo:



~update: 14/Jan/2007 ~

getting there...

Rig #1:

Windows Server R2 (64-bit) - Installed
Windows Vista RTM (64-bit) - Installed
Windows XP MCE (32-bit) - to be done
Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (64-bit) - Installed

Rig #2:

Windows Vista RTM (32-bit) - Installed
Windows XP Professional (32-bit) - Installed

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Posted 13 January 2007 - 08:48 AM

Just got done downloading and burning Fedora 6 and SuSE 10.2. Now i am working on Mandriva and OpenSolaris.




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