On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:12 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, kenneth gonsalves > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > finally succeeded. I did not use lvm. What I did: > > Congrats. However, the mystery behind the 40GB (from a another > thread) remains unresolved. I would suggest you close that thread > with your finding. The n00b sys admin may learn a few things from > that experience.
the 40 gb was free at that time, but since there were already 4 primary partitions, it was unusable. > > > 4 booted from the fedora installation dvd and restored grub. I now > have > > a nice dual boot system - I still have one more partition available, > > should I install mandriva, or does someone have suggestions for > > something more exotic? > > FreeBSD? been there, done that - I want some sexy distro that no one else in the LUG uses. > > If your CPU [a] and motherboard are LKVM capable + 4GB of RAM, then I > would suggest that you keep one primary OS and keep all the rest of > the hard disk for your /home and experiment with the different OS in a > LKVM environment. > > [a] Personal observation, dual core with 2 threads/core has given me > better multitasking between my VMs and other desktop apps running in > the primary OS. do not have enough RAM. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
