this is how bored i am...

[type_alt_f4]

how many OS's can you put on one box with a 10 gig hard drive, and 64 meg of ram?

I have 4 on it now...mandy 7.2, windows 95, windows 98, and freeBSD, the all SEEM to work right, i have even added a 835meg cross over drive that every OS can read, so if i need to import doc, mpgs and pictures...

10 extra points if you can guess which OS is on that drive... :D

[pbharris]

well since linux has no probelm reading windows and windows has nbo too many problems reading windows let me guess windows.

[Craig McPherson]

I could fit 14,000 OS's on that disk, easily.

Here's how:

1. Take an old DOS 740KB boot disk.

2. Make a disk image with the dd command.

3. Make 13,999 copies of that disk image.

4. Edit your lilo.conf to boot from any of those 14,000 images -- you might want to use a script to do this! :)

5. Re-run LILO.

Actually, having 14,000 different boot options in LILO would probably overflow the boot sector of your hard drive... but it's a nice thought. You could set up some chain loaders... it could work.

[bdg1983]

hmm a friend of mine has mandy,and slack and win 95 on a 4 gig so i'm gonna say you could probably fit seven, just a guess.
as for the os uh
BeOS?
OS/2?

[Dark Ninja]

I'm going to have to go with some form of Windows. Linux can read Windows, and every other *nix flavor I know can read Windows. However, Windows does not even recognize *nix. So...it's Windows. Care to share what it really is?


Dark Ninja

[type_alt_f4]

and the answer is...DOS ver 4.0 ported off the 95 system.

it seems that ~`everything`~ can be made to read dos...

and I don't know craig...that just sounds like cheating, I was refering to full OS's,
that has potential though, how could you benifit from having 14,000 OS's...other that bragging rights
:D

[demian]

Originally posted by type_alt_f4:
<STRONG>
and I don't know craig...that just sounds like cheating, I was refering to full OS's,
that has potential though, how could you benifit from having 14,000 OS's...other that bragging rights
:D</STRONG>

Exactly. It was not only cheating, it's also not possible :p Well, using lilo as boot manager at least wouldn't work: It can only boot 16 different OSes.

[Craig McPherson]

That's why you'd have to chain multiple bootloaders together...

For example, LILO can boot 16 things.

Now, set up 16 different LILO's, with 16 boot options each.

Set up another LILO to boot each of the 16 original LILOs. Now you can boot 256 things. Set up another 15 sets of 16 LILOs each, each with another LILO set to boot into any of them, then install another LILO above the LILOs that control the 16 sets.

So you have 1 master LILO, set to boot 16 second-level LILOs, which each boot 16 third-level LILOs, which eat boot 16 different OS's.

That's 4096 OS's right there. You can continue like that, if you want.