Re: partioning for multiple OS's
stan schrieb: I have a new laptop. It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD next. When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 How can I acomplish this? Hello, do you need to have dual (triple, quadruple) boot, or would you like to hear about other possibilities? I would say: use some kind of virtualization (vmware server, xen, virtual pc ) Doing that, you have not to worry about partitioning and boot loader configuration (which all is possible but will also likely end in a mess). You have the possibilities to play with network between the virtual machines and the host, you can eazy share data between them, and it is eazy to set up. Virtualization ist not a solution for everything but a solution for a lot of things (I'm sure a lot of people here would agree), especially if you want to play around with things. guido
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:55:56AM -0400, bofh wrote: On 9/3/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS 3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space 74109.78 sda1 is most probably your rescue space or bios utilities. Not recommended for deletion. I'm not really a Windows person. Could you explain why Windows needs _2_ partions? In the distant past I had windows on a multiboot machine without this. -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service.
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:30:27AM +0200, Guido Tschakert wrote: stan schrieb: I have a new laptop. It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD next. When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 How can I acomplish this? Hello, do you need to have dual (triple, quadruple) boot, or would you like to hear about other possibilities? Call me old fashinoned, but I prefer multiple boot. -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service.
partioning for multiple OS's
I have a new laptop. It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD next. When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 How can I acomplish this? -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service.
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
On 9/4/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new laptop. It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD next. When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 How can I acomplish this? The MBR has only 4 slots for partitions. If you only would use primary partitions you can have maximum 4 of these. You also can have a single extended partition, combined with 0 to 3 primary partitions. You cannot have multiple extended partitions. If you need to run Linux, it would be best to create 2 logical partitions within the extended partition for Linux. One logical for the Linux system and the other for Linxu swap. That would free up the current primary ReiserFS.partition. While Linux can boot from a logical partitions inside an extended one, the BSDs only can boot from a primary partition. So besides Linux you could install 3 other operating systems that need a primary partition. A possible complication would be a suspend-to-RAM partition which possible would take away one, only leaving you with only 2 primaries. I never owned a laptop, nor did I use suspend-to-RAM so I leave that issue to others ;) =Adriaan=
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
stan wrote: When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. You can capture the screen using a serial port and null-modem cable to another computer, see the FAQ for more info. I'm not that familiar with the output of the Linux program. When I have to install OpenBSD on the same disk as another OS and I don't feel like thinking, I usually just create a primary partition the size I want with the other OS and then change the partition type to A6 during the OpenBSD install process.
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:23:30PM -0400, stan wrote: I have a new laptop. It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD next. When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 How can I acomplish this? Ouch. The FAQ section 4.8 says that OBSD's partition has to be a primary partition. All your primary partitions are taken: 1: unknown (probably vista); 2: vista; 3 linux; 4 to hold the extended partitions. Linux doesn't have these limitations. I would get rid of Ubuntu, remove the sda3 and sda5, use OBSD's fdisk to make your OBSD primary partition in the third slot, leaving free space in logical partitions for linux. This assumes that your computer's bios can boot from anywhere on the disk. How you actually go about setting up the boot loaders is not something I know. I've heard that linux's GRUB can boot BSDs. DISCLAIMER: this is from my reading of the faq and __Absolute_OpenBSD__. I've never dual-booted, haven't run windows since 3.1, and am very new to OBSD. However, I've used Debian since 2001 or so. Good luck, Doug.
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:04:10AM +0200, Adriaan wrote: On 9/4/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new laptop. It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD next. When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 How can I acomplish this? The MBR has only 4 slots for partitions. If you only would use primary partitions you can have maximum 4 of these. You also can have a single extended partition, combined with 0 to 3 primary partitions. You cannot have multiple extended partitions. If you need to run Linux, it would be best to create 2 logical partitions within the extended partition for Linux. One logical for the Linux system and the other for Linxu swap. That would free up the current primary ReiserFS.partition. While Linux can boot from a logical partitions inside an extended one, the BSDs only can boot from a primary partition. So besides Linux you could install 3 other operating systems that need a primary partition. A possible complication would be a suspend-to-RAM partition which possible would take away one, only leaving you with only 2 primaries. I never owned a laptop, nor did I use suspend-to-RAM so I leave that issue to others ;) So, I need to move the Linux partion (using gpartd), reset the boot loader, and then I can put the 2 BSD's in the remaining 2 primary partions? I don't need the suspend to disk functionality anyway. -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything. I am the manager of all of Customer Service.
Re: partioning for multiple OS's
On 9/3/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2BootPrimary FAT16[] 31453.48 sda3Primary Linux ReiserFS3.54 sda5Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 Logical Free Space74109.78 sda1 is most probably your rescue space or bios utilities. Not recommended for deletion. sda2 looks like your vista. sda3 is your linux partition. Recommend not using reiserfs. It has interesting failure cases. Recommend installing linux in an extended partition (along with the swap, which is your sda5). So, I need to move the Linux partion (using gpartd), reset the boot loader, and then I can put the 2 BSD's in the remaining 2 primary partions? Unless you want to remove your bios/restore partition, you won't have an additional primary partition. *ponder* Hmm... vague neurons are telling me that ntfs may be bootable from an extended partition. You may have to destroy your vista install to try that, but if it works, then you can have the following: /dev/sda1 - primary restore /dev/sda2 - openbsd /dev/sda3 - freebsd /dev/sda5 - extended linux /dev/sda6 - extended linux swap /dev/sda7 - extended vista I don't need the suspend to disk functionality anyway. You'll have to get pretty friendly with grub. Alternatively, get very friendly with the windows bootloader (you can use it to boot linux, and probably also openbsd and freebsd). -- This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation.
