On Sunday 07 October 2007 14:08, Nick Guenther 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
> Well all the OSes you listed can just boot directly from the MBR (see > biosboot(8) and FAQ #4 http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html), and as > luck would have it 4 is the exact maximum number of primary partitions > that a DOS/MBR-based system can boot. Well that is a bit misleading. It's true that you can only have four primary partitions. But you may want to have a swap drive and others. Which is not a problem as you can actually have 64 partitions by using extended partitions. I had a similar setup except I also had several versions of Linux (which shared the swap drive) as well. The total was something like 10 different O/S's. All managed very well by GRUB. The trickiest is Windows which wants the first partition on the first drive, which GRUB can fake with a simple command. Unless you have some really old H/W you will not have a problem booting from anywhere on the disk. (I did this 2-3 years ago.) Then depending on your purpose you may want to do things like separating /var so it always have the log space it needs, and so on. In the end there's probably no reason why you can't put as many partitions as you want. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
