[ubuntu-za] (SOLVED) Installing 3 distro's on same drive.

[Johan Scheepers]

On 04/19/2011 05:16 PM, Daniël Louw wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Johan Scheepers 
> <johansche at telkomsa.net <mailto:johansche at telkomsa.net>> wrote:
>
>     Good day,
>
>     If I intend to install 3 distro's on one drive, but would like to
>     find out if it is possible / feasible ?
>
>     Make 4 partitions on drive.
>
>     Should they be all primary. I understand linux can handle that?
>
>     For instance..
>
>     First partition..        Ubuntu
>     second partition..    Fedora
>     third partition..        Centos
>     fourth partition..      Swap.
>
>     Now..should I install them in that sequence then Centos would
>     control the MBR ?
>
>     So now what happens when ..  say I replace  any of the first 2
>     with another/later distro ?
>
>     What can be done should the MBR go bad to boot the distro'S.
>
>     Some advice will be appreciated
>     Thanks
>     Johan S
>
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> Hello Johan
>
> Currently I have 4 OS's (Ubuntu, Win7 X86, Win7 X64 and Ubuntustudio), 
> a swap partition, a 10MB partition for the manager (see below) and a 
> shared data partition all on one drive, all of them primary partitions.
>
> I use BootIT NG ( 
> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm) to manage 
> everything. I see on their website NG got replaced by something else 
> (BootIT Bare Metal (BM)). I do not know BM, it's new. I only know NG, 
> but I presume they work the same.
>
> NG installs on a small partition on your drive, and adds a reference 
> to this partition in the MBR of your drive. So NG loads right after 
> boot, and then you select the OS you want to load from there.
> The amount of options that you can set is really amazing. It hides any 
> partition/drive you want from any other partition/drive. So this means 
> you install each OS separately, and all of them are blissfully unaware 
> of all the other OS's installed. So no messing with GRUB or anything.
>
> You can copy, backup, clone, create, modify, resize, move and delete a 
> partition, even when there is an OS installed on it. Forget about 
> gParted, this thing really rocks! You can make as many partitions on 
> the drive you want, and you can make all of them primary.
>
> Unfortunately it is not free. But I am yet to find something that 
> provides this amount of power.
> I suggest you read the manual 
> (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/bootitbm_en_manual.pdf), 
> and start from scratch, on a fresh drive, just to make sure you don't 
> destroy anything you don't want destroyed! :-p
> Please ask me if you have any other questions.
>
> -- 
> Regards
>
> *Daniël Louw*
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Good day *Daniël,

/I tried both the old and new boot managers.
My success was not what I expected.
I did some google and found GAG 4.10.
Too have a look at this boot manager google " gag 4.10 ".
It is " free " but can boot only " 9 OS's " on different drives if required.
The instructions explain it better than me.
It is more than enough for me./
Thanks,
Regards,
Johan S

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