[ubuntu-za] ubuntu-za Digest, Vol 67, Issue 43

[James Gezane]

I agree with Corrie,

VMs are much easier to manage and you can move them between machines if 
you have to by exporting and reimporting vdi files.

Regards
James
On 2011/04/20 03:25 PM, Corrie Strydom wrote:
> n 20 April 2011 15:18, Peter Nel<fourdots at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:55:42 +0200
>>> From: Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>
>>> To: ubuntu-za<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>,
>>>         ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Installing 3 distro's on same drive.
>>> Message-ID:<4DADA26E.8000200 at telkomsa.net>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> If I were you i'd save my primary partitions, since you can only have 4 of
>> them per physical drive, while you can have unlimited extended partitions
>> per primary partition.
>> Windows, for one, can't install to anything but a primary partition. Linux
>> doesn't care.
>> So you can reserve unused primary partitions like this:
>> 1) Primary Partition #1:
>> - Extended Partition 1.1: swap (share this between all distros)
>> - Extended Partition 1.2: ext4 (ubuntu)
>> - Extended Partition 1.3: ext4 (fedora)
>> - Extended Partition 1.4: ext4 (centos)
>> 2..4) save Primary Partitions #2..#4 for something that really needs primary
>> partition (e.g. 1xwindows&  1xdedicated partition for fixed page file, aka
>> virtual memory, aka swap (use 64-bit blocks, if you're interested in doing
>> this) -- not that i use windows, but i've done it like this before).
>> Do you really need to install the OS's to the drive in order to test them
>> out? Would a LiveCD not be sufficient, like ubuntu's main install disk? I
>> don't know if Fedora and CentOS have live CD's.
>> Have you considered debian? Would be a little bit easier to work if you know
>> ubuntu (both fedora and centos are Red Hat (.rpm) based)
>> --
>> Péter Nel
>>
>
> Rather use a VM, like Virtualbox?
>
> Corrie
>


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