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[Christopholofigus]

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.

[m.oreilly]

best of luck with that, C

[chriso_86]

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

[Sphere]

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

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 )

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

[donkballs]

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

[Christopholofigus]

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.

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?

[brewin]

Christopholofigus, on Jan 11 2007, 01:41 AM, said:

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

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.

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

[VROSA]

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

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

My second rig multi-boot :

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

[chriso_86]

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!

[Sphere]

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!

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

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

[Camaro]

BlueScreenOfDeath, 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

[bluerip]

"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'

[VROSA]

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BlueScreenOfDeath - Posted 11/01/2007

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...

..........PM should work with XP x64



~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

[Christopholofigus]

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