Bootin 4 OS'es?

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

HI, answering directly into your text below: 

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 19:33 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 17:29 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 01:25 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:49 -0400, stan wrote:
> > > > I'd like to set my laptop up to boot 4 different OS'es. Those would be
> > > > Ubuntu, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and XP. Can anyone suggest a way to do this?
> > > 
> > >   Install XP First, or if it is installed, figure out how much room you
> > > want to shrink it by, and remember that figure.  During the partitioning
> > > (You can shrink your XP install here, after you've defragged XP using
> > > Windows), set up your /Swap as a primary partition, then use the rest as
> > > an extended partition and give some thought to whether you are going to
> > > use one /home partition for the three remaining OS' or their
> > > separate /home partitions, or whether you want even separate /home
> > > partitions.  Also do some thinking about which one of the OS' will
> > > handle the boot process.  My main system has 5 OS' on it, and managing
> > > Grub has become an issue.  Those OS' which upgrade the Kernel and
> > > initrd, but use symlinks make this easier, those that do not require
> > > editing of /boot/grub/menu.lst to point to the correct kernel/initrd
> > > images.
> > 
> > Hi Mike
> > Your suggestion to setup /SWAP as a primary partition interests me !
> > Can you explain me why ?
> 
>   On my system, mentioned above, /swap is the first partition on the
> second hard drive, that's due to access time, and it's all arguable.
> Modern systems support enough RAM that actually using swap is rare in my
> experience.  The real question would be data access times, and the first
> partition is actually on the outside of the disk and works it's way
> inward, so you have a bigger circumference on the outer tracks than on
> the inner tracks.  Part of my logic is flawed, but this is the way I
> would do it.

Well, with SWAP as first partition on the 2nd HDD is an argument.
As for need and speed I also agree with you.


> > After using OS/2 for more than 13 years and my very first Ubuntu 7.10
> > since October 2007 I am preparing an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation from 
> > scratch !
> 
>   I just did a change from Mythbuntu to Ubuntu 8.04.

Something in our life is always changing ;-)
Someone wants me to change to BSD !?


> > My thoughts were somewhat similar to yours above:
> > prim for WinXPP and the (swap, root and home) in extended.
> > 
> > I wanted to install OS/2 again / too but I am not sure anymore yet 
> > but I do need to get my OS/2 data migrated !!! ;-)
> > 
> > TIA for your efforts and explanation of SWAP in primary.
> > Cheers, svobi
> 
>   Might I suggest that you do a data burn/backup of your OS/2 data and
> then use virtualbox to host OS/2 inside of Ubuntu?  I have virtualbox on
> my laptop and have tinkered with it a bit, actually installing
> Mandriva2008 and running it for a bit before trashing it.  (I made the
> space for it too small for it to be useful.)

I appreciate your suggestion regarding the virtualbox for using OS/2 !
May try later when I am done properly with my new setup with Ubuntu 8.04
LTS !?
Quite vital are my personal data from OS/2 since they go back to early
80ies and 
I do not want to loose / miss them !!! ;-D

Once again thanks for your efforts, cheers
svobi