Roy Charles wrote: > I multi-boot to the extreme. I have two hard drives, one with two > NTFS partitions for Windows and one with 7 partitions for Linux. On > the Linux partition I run four distros (PCLinuxOS, OpenSuse 10.3, > Ubuntu 7.10, and one is empty for now). My main distro is Ubuntu. I > test other distros for fun. My point is that it can be done very > easily without disturbing your system. >
You might want to consider installing front-loading drive cages, so you can just load hard drives how and where you want. One cage can be reserved for the operating system HD, and the other cage(s) can hold data, which can then be operated on by whichever OS happens to be loaded. This permits a lot of flexibility, with little cost overhead... the drive cages are pretty inexpensive, as are smaller format hard drives. There are a few images of my workshop machines, which all use front loading drives, some IDE, and some SCSI. Great for cloning drives, backing up, and doing stuff like malware testing, and handling 'hot drives' in an isolated environment, when my Windows-using clients bring me their 'sick' drives, to clean up. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
