Amarendra Godbole wrote:
On 10/7/07, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a new laptop that I would like to set up to have 4 different OS's
on. The OS's I would like to install are:
OpenBSD
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows (XP r Vista)
Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my
concern is about portions. If it is possible can anyone give me an idea how
best to approach this? Or a pointer to some docs?
I have almost similar configuration on my IBM Thinkpad X61 laptop.
Here is how I did it:
1. Install Windows XP/ Vista in the first primary partition.
2. Install OpenBSD in the second primary partition.
3. Install FreeBSD in the third.
4. Install Linux (Debian, in my case) in the fourth - which becomes
extended because of the way Linux handles the partitions.
Use grub as your bootloader, as it can boot Linux from the extended
partition. All other three OSes' will "chainload" through grub, which
means you have to add entries to menu.lst of grub. Booting FreeBSD
through grub is nicely explained here:
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200102/grub.html. A similar entry needs to
be made for OpenBSD too. Also note that grub starts the numbering from
0, so your partitions will be 0 for Win, 1 for OpenBSD, 2 for FreeBSD,
and 3 for Linux.
HTH.
-Amarendra
Ate the moment the machine has the Vista part-ion, and it's recovery partition
(which I figure I don;t need), and a Linux partition on it. I can boot Linux,
or Vista using Grub.
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Seems to me that the simplest and most flexible way to do this is to
install Linux or Windows as your host OS and use VMware. I do that on
my MacBook Pro running OS X, and run OBSD, Linux, and Solaris as guest OSes.
Works great, and I can have all of them up at the same time, and network
between them.
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