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10-19-2003, 11:19 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9, Yellow Dog 3 (AKA Red Hat 8 for PPC)
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Multi Booting many, many, many, OS's
Hey,
here is my question, I'm working on installing as many OS's as I can on a Dual P3 500MHz. I'm trying to get about 30 OS's on this computer.
How would I go about installing GRUB or Lilo and configuring it to "see" and boot all these OS's, would I have to Chainboot?
I'm really kinda a  to x86 Linux and bootloaders, so any help would be greatly liked.
Thx for your help, I'll be around.
Mac_man25
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10-19-2003, 11:51 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9, Yellow Dog 3 (AKA Red Hat 8 for PPC)
Posts: 6
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Wow, thx.
Kinda disappointing, I was hoping for a world record. oh well.
Thx for your help, If there's anymore on this stuff it would be appreciated.
Mac_man25
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10-20-2003, 02:01 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Debian/other
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I think LILO can only boot 16 images? - I'm multibooting 5 OS's at present.....the key with LILO is to make sure that all the relevant kernels are locally mounted each time you re-run /sbin/lilo.
One simple approach to multibooting say 7 or 8 operating systems is simply to have a series of Root partitions, each one corresponding to a different distribution and 1 Swap file shared bewteen them.
repost if there are any more questions on this.
Last edited by Skyline; 10-20-2003 at 02:04 AM.
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10-24-2003, 01:33 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9, Yellow Dog 3 (AKA Red Hat 8 for PPC)
Posts: 6
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Well I figured it out for now. that is until I have a problem cause I reached the limit of GRUB. So now I have Red Hat 9 and Libranet so far, i have to download some more distro's. I'll try to update monday after school, I only work on the thing during class.
Mac_man
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10-24-2003, 04:06 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: mad.es.eu
Distribution: ubuntu 5.04 knoppix Slack91/10 freebsd51 vector4 redhat9
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ranish can have more primary partitions, but it is non-standard and in fact quite dangerous
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10-24-2003, 11:39 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9, Yellow Dog 3 (AKA Red Hat 8 for PPC)
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The Partition thing isn't a problem, I'm not installing any crummy Microshaft OS's.
And as far as I know linux doesn't mind where it is on the drive.
Mac_man
Last edited by mac_man25; 10-24-2003 at 11:43 PM.
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10-25-2003, 08:07 AM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: redhat 9
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so what all os are you trying to install ,
just check out the book of records, or later they will say it was not 30 but 31 :d
good luck for your new venture....
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10-25-2003, 06:48 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: mad.es.eu
Distribution: ubuntu 5.04 knoppix Slack91/10 freebsd51 vector4 redhat9
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Not only windows, BSD need primary partition, too. I don't know about others OS tho.
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10-26-2003, 08:51 AM
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will linux ditrubutions alone come to 30 ( i doubt )
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10-26-2003, 09:13 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
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Quote:
Originally posted by porous
will linux ditrubutions alone come to 30 ( i doubt )
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Well there are 100 listed on the very first page of distro watch.
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