what's your setup for multiboot?

[dpopiz]

I've always just used different partitions for each all on one disk. I have to pray and hope and worry and all that crap whenever I install a new OS (I like to experiment with a lot of OSes) or when I do any sort of disk operation because I know the slightest mistake or bug could lose me a lot of valuable stuff.

what's your system for OS experimentation?

 

[Nothinman]

VMWare.

 

[groovin]

i have a few machines that dual boot windows and linux. the first partition has windows on it, NTFS... the MBR is on this disk. Then on the rest of the HD are various partitions for linux (root, swap, some partitions that mount /var, etc.).

i would use vmware, but they dont have the horsepower for that.

 

[n0cmonkey]

The only machine that is dualboot in my house is the one I'm on now. It hasn't been booted into Linux since I installed it. I'm going to recover the 15GBs it's using one of these days and give it back to OpenBSD.

 

[silverpig]

74 GB raptor: ~30 gigs for XP, ~30 gigs fat32 as a communication partition, ~13 gigs reiserFS for linux, 1 GB swap
120 GB WD: all ntfs for data.

I'm pretty safe I guess.