3 OS'es on 1 Hard drive?
 

Hey Guys!

I'm trying to set up a system with multiple OS'es on it.

I'd like to have Redhat, Slackware, SuSe and XP all on one 80gb hard drive. I'm looking for some recommendations for good step by step instructions. Redhat site has one that really only deals with 2 os'es and doesn't go into much detail about partitioning.. but i think its a little different for 3 or 4 os'es.

Thanks again!

Murray

why so many OS'es ???
Just install slack, and begin a new life !!!

You will need logical partitions. . .
You might consider having a /home partition so your personal settings stay the same with each distro.

check this out: http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20040614#2

http://www.distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20040614#2

that looks like the one! thanks! i'll give it a read.

I need this for my work machine. my home machine is slack.

The limiting factor with how many OS's you can install basically comes down to disk space, and if you plan to install each Linux distro into 3 or 4 partitions each, you'll need to spend some time planning how to divvy up your hard drive because you may find yourself allocating anywhere from 10 to 20 partitions.

Also, if you are plannng on saving any audio or video files, you may also find yourself with very little available space. I'd definitely encourage you to give this a try as a learning experience, but if you are thinking that you may want to make this permanent, you will probably want to use a larger disk drive, or eliminate one or two of the OS's. Good luck with it. -- J.W.

i have a second 120gb hard drive that'll be all fat32 so all hard drives can access it.

the link to the distrowatch article is worth the time. you'll notice that they reccommend against using a common /home for all (3 in your case) linux distros. i tried this once with RH9 and Slack and it turned into a mess....that'll teach me for playing around with an (IMHO) inferior distro like RH...

good luck...

-crash

I keep 4 Oses all the time. Just something to goof around with. XP for my daughter and wife. Slackware is always there. Then the other 2 can get changed as I want to experiment with other distros. One of them is usually FreeBSD. The other right now is Debian. Arch was on it before that. Wanted to try Solaris, but it seems to insist on having a whole disk.