Without a manager like system commander, how many OSes can you have on one machine?

[Locutus of Board]

I'm thinking a bevy of 98/nt/2000/Xp, but what about having BEOS/Linux/FreeBSD/QNX etc?

This is without any third party tools remind you..........

In what order? The windows family first, then what about any unix variants

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I'm thinking a bevy of 98/nt/2000/Xp, but what about having BEOS/Linux/FreeBSD/QNX etc?

This is without any third party tools remind you..........

In what order? The windows family first, then what about any unix variants >>



Linux and FreeBSD both come with thier own bootmanagers (LILO being VERY easy to configure). But one hint that will make this easier and which will enable you to learn a lot more, get multiple machines. windows on one, unix varients on the other. And the bonus, everything but BeOS and QNX can run on crap hardware. I dont know what kind of hardware qnx and BeOS run well on, but I know they can run on low end hardware.

 

[Shadow07]

I would use LILO as the boot manager. If you really want to, you could use the NT boot loader, but LILO is much better. Also you could try using Boot Commander instead.

Also, I haven't tried installing Linux and Windows on the same machine, but I have heard from other people that LILO works just fine.

 

[Locutus of Board]

Monkey,

I have multiple machines, but I just want to see how many I can cram on one with a 30 gig drive.

I'll put 98/Nt4/2000

Then the others. Which would I put last?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Monkey,

I have multiple machines, but I just want to see how many I can cram on one with a 30 gig drive.

I'll put 98/Nt4/2000

Then the others. Which would I put last? >>



Remember linux may have problems with its kernel past cylinder 1024 on your harddrive. FreeBSD (if I remember correctly) does not have these problems, and I do not know about the others.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I would use LILO as the boot manager. If you really want to, you could use the NT boot loader, but LILO is much better. Also you could try using Boot Commander instead.

Also, I haven't tried installing Linux and Windows on the same machine, but I have heard from other people that LILO works just fine. >>



I have gotten lilo to work beautifully with win98/98se, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. I have not tried it with NT or 2k (havent actually touched 2k ), but I have heard seen reports that it works.