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Your thoughts on multi-boot systems
- Thread starter ken27238
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Well, I have a B&W G3 running:
8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4.
From five partitions. (One 'Classic' and one OS X on each partition.)
My G4 Digital Audio runs 9.2 and 10.0 on one drive, and 10.5 on a second.
My netbook dual-boots Linux and XP.
My 'nettop' dual boots Linux and Win7.
My server dual boots Linux and Windows Server 2008 R2.
My primary "PC" desktop dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 7.
8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4.
From five partitions. (One 'Classic' and one OS X on each partition.)
My G4 Digital Audio runs 9.2 and 10.0 on one drive, and 10.5 on a second.
My netbook dual-boots Linux and XP.
My 'nettop' dual boots Linux and Win7.
My server dual boots Linux and Windows Server 2008 R2.
My primary "PC" desktop dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 7.
Nope, I take the crazy cake.8-o8-o
and I thought I was crazy
Woah, that is a crazy amount of OSes. I like the trick of having two per partition to avoid having an unmanageable number of them.
My PC has 10.5, 10.6 and Win XP all installed to seperate hard disks. When I get a new hard disk I will probably install Windows 7, too.
My PC has 10.5, 10.6 and Win XP all installed to seperate hard disks. When I get a new hard disk I will probably install Windows 7, too.
I have 4 partitions, and I have one of the fancy boot loaders when you turn on the machine, like this: http://refit.sourceforge.net/screen.html
Ubuntu 6.10 is pretty old as versions go... I've actually got 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) installed on a Wallstreet and a Pismo.
The trick, in both cases, was to use the Alternate CD (not the Live one). The Wallstreet was surprisingly easy once I got the right set of BootX options selected. The Pismo was actually a bit harder as I had to manually edit the xorg.conf file.
Getting back to the original topic, the Wallstreet multiboots Panther, 9.2.2, and Ubuntu 9.04. The Pismo multiboots Tiger, 9.2.2 and Ubuntu 9.04, though I want to try and install NetBSD to the spare partition.
John
Unless your computer is just for experimenting you need lots of big hard drives to run that many OS's. You're going to find that you will accumulate software for all those OS's along the way and having that many OS's installed on a single, small drive won't allow you to do much of anything useful since you won't have the drive space for very many apps. Some of us have enough difficulty keeping a single OS uncluttered and running smoothly, having that many installed on one drive is going to compound the difficulties.
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Oh, yes, my IBM PS/2 Model 77 has IBM-DOS 7 and Windows 3.11 on one partition, OS/2 2.0 on a second, OS/2 2.1 on a third, and OS/2 Warp 4 on a fourth. (OS/2 3.x wasn't very interesting, comparatively.)
I nearly always put two [seldom more] os on every machine and if possible on separate disks. On older macs this is generally 9.2.2 & tiger. On a pc generally recovery console, ghost 8.0, and XP. And I always keep data on it's own partition on macs, windows and linux. An a little over the top example, my QS has two drives: big one for music with a small tiger rescue partition at the beginning , and a fast smaller drive with swap, tiger, applications, home, and os 9 in that order.
If it's not obvious why, this allows me to screw things up and just reinstall the os. Also allows diskwarrior to work fast from a different partition. Also protects my data short of disk failure. Also lets me in if the main os just checked out.
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If it's not obvious why, this allows me to screw things up and just reinstall the os. Also allows diskwarrior to work fast from a different partition. Also protects my data short of disk failure. Also lets me in if the main os just checked out.
2simple
