I have a triple-boot system at home--WinMe, Win2K and RH-7.2. I give each OS its own partition (the RH installation has its own harddrive in fact). That seems to allow each OS to play nicely with each other. I even make the Win2K partition be NTFS so that the WinME OS won't bother it.
On 14 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 14 January 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I do have two large HDD (40G for win98 and 30G for RH7.2) and thought that > > > would suffice to keep the two lovebirds away from each other, but I'll try > > > the fdisk /mbr and boot linux with a floppy instead of grub. > > > > i *highly* recommend against that route. i'm trying to think of any > > linux guru or guru in training among us who has, at some point or > > another, said that if you must have a dual boot, keep the OS's on > > different hard drives. i remember jeff saying this. i think i remember > > steve peck saying this. i've certainly said this. > > > > you've got two big hard drives. what's the problem? > > > Not me. I setup 20 servers dual-booting between win2k and red-hat for > a group to do performance testing (No I do not have the results, I was > just hired to setup the OS'es). I used lilo and multiple partitions > on the hard drive. The group used that setup for at least 6 months. > (tho, this was server class hardware) > > For personal use, I run with seperate systems and a kvm switchbox. > slightly older hw on the linux box. > > -sp > > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dooglio.net _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
