how many partitions/os can I put on 1 hdd

[anthony baldwin]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
>
>   
>> anthony baldwin wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there a limit to the number of partitions and OSs
>>> I can put on one hdd (beyond space limitations, of course)?
>>>       
>> There are 4 primary partitions. One of them can be an entry for an
>> extended partition. Linux can handle (I think - but I can't find a
>> reference) 63 logical partitions within the secondary partition. That
>> makes 66 partitions overall.
>>     
>
> hmm.  That's not the way I understand it, but I haven't experimented.  As I
> understand, a secondary partition may contain up to 15 logical partitions,
> but Windows (at least prior to XP) couldn't handle more than one secondary
> partition - so 18 partitions for Windows, but up to 60 for Linux (and yes,
> scsi or scsi-emulated disks can have fewer).
>
> In any case, it shouldn't be hard to do what Tony wants.
>
>   
>
We have successfully done it.
My daughter has created her own livecd for her 3rd grade science fair.
How many 8 year olds have done that, eh?
Here is her page: http://www.baldwinlinguas.com/rhifluxos/rhifluxos.html
She built this on PCFlux, again, only because I have already done the same
with that distro, and they make it as easy as falling of a log.
Her main distro is edubuntu, of course.
Somehow, though, since loading this third OS to the hdd, our edubuntu
install (feisty) seems a bit hosed...Everything works, except, suddenly,
edubuntu is not finding either the soundcard or eth0 (network card).

/tony


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