From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Milan P. Stanic" Subject: Re: multiple OSs Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:48:01 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030505154801.GA1675@rns-nis.co.yu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 02:20:09AM +0000, Subhash Bhushan wrote: > First of all, thanks all of you for your input. I was basically asking for > intricacies like overwriting of MBR by any other OS other than Windows > (Novell, for ex). By "Ease of Maintenance", I meant that if any OS or the > boot loader itself, were to get corrupted, would it be easy to get it back? I know only for Novell Netware till version 4.12 (or 4.20) that it is boots from DOS. So if you can boot DOS you can boot netware, and you can boot DOS as you know already. Regarding your original question (can the win, linux, netware and bsd be all installed on the same hard disk, IIRC), yes you can have all of them but only beware that the WinXX like to write over MBR and sometimes over partition table for no apparent reason. Or maybe they like to destroy anything what isn't devil's product. ;) That is company policy, anyway. > And thanks Mr.Terry White, those were some valuable input. I am an ardent Nice writings, heh :))) Milan