From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Anthony Nguyen" Subject: RE: multiple OSs Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 21:55:05 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030504195507.42FDFA803FE8@mwinf0304.wanadoo.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: 'Subhash Bhushan' , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org I don't know for novell (if it has a particularity with MBR, I've never installed it) but for the other OS you can install all of them with most of boot loaders. Basically, you have to: - divide your HD in multiple partitions (1 for win, 1 for Linux, 1 for its swap ... etc) - install each of the OS - boot under Linux (if you want to use grub or lilo as boot loader) - configure lilo or grub so when you'll boot, you'll have a menu that will be displayed so you can choose what OS you want to boot on Usually I keep a "boot" floppy disk to boot on Linux (once I've installed it), just in case that I install an OS which I don't know how to configure the boot loader. Lilo is easy to configure and you'll find many tutorials to help you to configure it, while grub may seem a little bit harder to configure but can be reconfigured at his prompt. I don't get what you mean by "Which is easier to maintain?". > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-admin- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Subhash Bhushan > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 8:19 AM > To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > > I have two HDs on one of my systems. Now, I would like to install Novell, > Freebsd, Windows and Linux on it. Is it possible? If it is, then is there > any restriction as to which should be installed first and which last? > If it is not possible, then which is the best combination of OSs that I > can have? Windows, linux and freebsd? or windows, linux and Novell? Which > is > easier to maintain? > Just a doubt that I have wanted to clear for a long time :) > Thanks in advance, > > Subhash. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Find a partner. For life. http://www.shaadi.com/ptnr.php?ptnr=hmlql > Meet@Shaadi.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html