I triple boot my gen1 Core 2 Duo MacBookPro (OS X 10.4 / Vista /RHEL V4)
Disk formatted as MBR (for Vista) I use rEFIt as bot loader, works great. I use Mac OSX disk utility for backing up HFS+ partition (OSX). Can setup network wih this utility, but I back up dmg image to a usb drive. For windows, I use Ghost v9 to make an image, which could be cloned to other computers. I use Bart PE, which has network capabilities. For Linux, I just back up data and would reinstall if I had a crash, but I do have separate ext3 partition for /boot, /root, swap, and /home. If you go this route on a mac (using GRUB), you need modified grub loader files, which I can explain more if interested (legacy "A2 gate" issue). First boot will require el-torito boot from CD or other option. All OS's work fine and are stable. Can even go through side door to windows using parallels when booted in MAc OSX John -- Assistant Professor and NMR Director Division of Cell Biology & Biophysics School of Biological Sciences University of Missouri-Kansas City 103 BSB, 5007 Rockhill Road Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone/Lab/Fax:816-235-5345/6297/6584 lab webpage: http://sbs.umkc.edu/nmr/index.asp On 10/25/07 5:54 PM, "John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Maser wrote: >> Hi all... >> >> User here asked me about the possibility of setting up a "triple boot" >> MacPro after 10.5 comes out. >> >> >> I can "clone" XP (and Vista) using imaging products like Ghost/Acronis >> (we have a master image we put on the Windows boxes and I've >> successfully used Ghost to move XP into a "bootcamp" partition with no >> problems...) >> >> I can clone OSX (using Carbon Copy Cloner or "Disk Utility") between >> multiple Macs with no problem. >> >> >> Is there a way to move an installed Red Hat image from one hardware box >> to another? Or is this not feasible/recommended? >> > > It's perfectly possible, and the zFolk do it all the time on their > zSeries computers. > > I've done it on occasion when a system dies or otherwise needs > upgrading; I copy (or move) the hdd from one system to another. > > The main problem is sorting out network interfaces:-) > > I've not yet found the need to install once, copy to many. > > I'd not use the mondo rescue stuff, I've seen the code and it looks a > little fragile to me. > > systemimager is a package developed for the purpose. I think it's at > sf.net, but google knows. > > One can also copy using any of these > dd (with some limitations) > tar & similar such as cpio, afio (not standard, but basically cpio with > some improvements). > > there's some fiddling with each: dd works best if disks are identical > but is okay. with fiddling, if the destination's bigger), the others > require pre partitioning and formatting but you can change filesystems > and to/from lvm. > > For NTFS I use the ntfs tools, ntfsclone etc, from sf. It's included in > Knoppix and some other live CD systems. > > > > >> I can set up "rEFIt" (http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) so that I can have >> 3 different bootable partitions on the Mac, but haven't ever considered >> if I could move a RedHat install from one computer to another >> (potentially where the "master image" is on a Windows machine and the >> target would then be a MacPro). Our RedHat installs are currently so >> few and far between that we only ever do them from the master .isos > > I'm unfamiliar with refit, and I've not yet played with efi partitions. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
