>>>> I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning >>>> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8 (Hackintosh), >>>> Solaris10, OpenSolaris, Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora, BSDs >>>> (FreeBSD and OpenBSD). The computer is a Dell netbook >>>> Mini9 which supports all these operative systems very well >>>>(with the Solaris family only the Wifi driver does not >>>> exist natively,and needs a driver designed for Windows). >>>> I need some advice about the right strategy to follow, >>>> especially about:
>>>> 1) For what OSs use primary partitions or logical partitions. >> The Linuxes can boot from logical partitions. >> Never tried to boot the Solarises from anything other than primary >> partitions; sorry. >> Never used Hackintosh or the other BSDs. >>>> 2) Different swap partitions for different OSs? >> The Linuxes and Solarises can share a swap partition. >> A former colleague once claimed that Linux could use a FreeBSD swap >> slice as a Linux swap partition (but not the other way around). He was >> very knowledgeable so I assume that it is possible. >> OS X uses swap files in its /var/vm directory, so Hackintosh probably >> does too and therefore must not need a swap partition. >>> Please tell us how you can manage to boot Leopard (OS X >>> 10.5) on a Dell Netbook. >> OS X has been hacked to boot on non-Apple hardware (and installers >> have been posted online); probably using the fact that OS X is based >> on Mach/FreeBSD. Technically interesting but morally... > AFAIK at least for Linux you need 1 primary partition of small size (200MB > is nearly too big) which contains /boot if you want to use LVM. I would ditch the default LVM setup (in Fedora for example) in order to free up primary partitions, should the BSDs and/or Solarises need them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
