----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Jon L. Jereza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [plug] Dual Booting Red Hat 7.3 with 9.0
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:52, mjd wrote: > > Hi Pluggers, > > > > I encountered a problem when trying to install 3 OS's on my test > > machine. Maybe one of you can help. Here's what I had: > > > > 1. Started out with NT4 of partition 1. > > 2. Installed RH 7.3: > > > > /dev/hda2 - /boot > > /dev/hda3 - / > > swap space > > I'm just guessing but I think this is what your partitions should look > like since /boot usually needs to be a primary partition. > > /dev/hda1 - NT4 > /dev/hda2 - /boot (RH 7.3) > /dev/hda3 - /boot (RH 9) > /dev/hda4 - Extended Partition > /dev/hda5 - / (RH 7.3) > /dev/hda6 - / (RH 9) > /dev/hda7 - Swap Space not really... /boot could also be place at the extended partition... what important most is that the /boot partition is within the 1024 cylinder... what makes linux partition advantage to other partitions is that it can be placed at the extended partition... mjd, based on your given partitions: /dev/hda1 - nt /dev/hda2 - /boot /dev/hda3 - / /dev/hda4 - swap with this, you are already running out of 4-partition limit... example partition for your problem: /dev/hda1 - nt /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda3 - free (for other OS eg. freebsd) /dev/hda4 - free (for other OS eg. openbsd) /dev/hda5 - /boot (RH 7.3 and within the 1024 cylinder) /dev/hda6 - /boot (RH 9.0 and within the 1024 cylinder) /dev/hda7 - /boot (other variants of linux and within the 1024 cylinder) /dev/hda8 - / (RH 7.3) /dev/hda9 - / (RH 9.0) /dev/hda10 - / (other variants of linux) /dev/hda11 - swap (shared by all variants of linux) as i said, you can put as many variants of linux as you want at the extended partition.. just be sure that their /boot partitions are within the 1024 cylinder and only one boot manager will take care of multi-booting... fooler. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
