lots of space.....need some help

[jbstew32]

I am going to get a 40GB HD and keep my 6GB (i like having 2 Hard Drives) and i want to install theses OS's on them: Win98, Win2k, Slackware Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and BeOS (that will just go with the Win98 Partitions because its the Personal Edition)

What is the best way to partition my Hard Drive and in what order do I need to install the OS's (i know windows and Solaris are a little tricky)??

[jbstew32]

should i even bother with the BSD, or just have Solaris and Linux?

[DesertWolf]

You need to decide a couple of things first.
What OS do you use the most ? Give it plenty of room.
What OS are you just checking out/playing with. put it on the end of one of the drives, so if you git rid of it,you will not have a gapping hole in your drive.
Also remember Windows does not play nice, so you will probably have to put it on the Big drive first.
I have a 30 gig and a 13.6 gig on my box, I have Win98 and BeOS on the 30 and Linux by itself on the 13.6.( but I haven't used eather Win or Be in months on this box.)

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[DesertWolf]

You need to decide a couple of things first.
What OS do you use the most ? Give it plenty of room.
What OS are you just checking out/playing with. put it on the end of one of the drives, so if you git rid of it,you will not have a gapping hole in your drive.
Also remember Windows does not play nice, so you will probably have to put it on the Big drive first.
I have a 30 gig and a 13.6 gig on my box, I have Win98 and BeOS on the 30 and Linux by itself on the 13.6.( but I haven't used eather Win or Be in months on this box.)

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[jbstew32]

I know i will use WIn98 and win2k a lot, and i will use Slack even more. The OS's that I am just trying out are Solaris and BSD. Would it be best to do this:

40 GB HD : hda
-5 GB Win98
-5 GB Win2k
-20 GB Apps (Shared partition of 98 and 2k)
-10 GB (???)

6 GB HD : hdb
-4 GB Linux (/, /home, swap, etc...)
-2 GB Solaris

Would this work out? Also, will have such a big drive slow me down?

[Beowulf_Ghost]

So your trying out freeBSD and Solaris?

From my expirience freeBSD isn't much different from some of the BSDish Linux distro's. From the users stand point, the C shell is different from Bash, but a shell is just a shell. That, and the stuff in /dev uses different names.

You can install BeOS on its own partition. In BeOS go to the applications and choose Installer. BeOS also has a rather nice boot manager (called bootman, it's under /bin).

One of the nice things about freeBSD is that it has a rather small install footprint. And it can run Linux binaries.

Sorry I can't help you with Solaris, I've never used it.

My recomendations;
You have a 6gig and a 40 gig, right?

the 6gig;
I would carve off 5 gigs for Win98. Make the first partition on the primary master. Win9x is very pick about how it's installed, and it must be first. Install BeOS on the last gig using the Installer app. The reason for giving Win98 so much room; All the other OS's can read FAT partitions. So you can always use the Win98 partition for an overflow from the other Unix's and Win2k.

the 40 gig;
My guess will have to install Win2k first. Then install the other Unix's. Try to get /boot on its own partitions, and put them above the 1024th cylinder.

Just my educated guesses.

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[rppp01]

Well, you can put win98, win2k and BeOS on the same partition, using fat32. I would slice this one at about 10gbs. I know how games can suck your space. The porn can go else where http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

You may want to narrow your choices a bit here. You will run into boot loader problems, and that can suck really bad when you get almost all the way through the last or next to last OS and find out you have lost the first 2 OSes.

If you want to learn Solaris, put Linux on, and put xfce as the GUI. It is very close to CDE, and the networking tools (command line) are very similiar.

Once you have these 4 on, put BSD on its own disk- the 6gigger. This gives you ample room for linux mush on its large size, and BSD on its own. Give linux about 8gig.

Use the rest as a fat partition. This will allow all OSes to share data (not that Linux and BSD can see each others data as well as that of windows, or anything). This will also give you a safe spot in case one of your OSes goes south and you have to reinstall http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

**Remember-- make floppy boot disks for linux and bsd. If you don't life will suck really bad down the road when one or both won't boot due to a faulty lilo config or win2k nukes the mbr, or something.

[dieselboy]

rppp,
So all someone has to do is learn a "similar windows manager" and they will learn another OS? CDE is not solaris homey... CDE is ****.

diesel

[Sweede]

windows 2000 sucks on a fat32 drive, dont put it on fat32.

I did all that, but not solaris and BE, using windows 2000's bootloader,
use dd to make an image of the bootsecter of the root partition, and copy it to the c:\ drive and modify the boot.ini file.

i had booting....

Windows 2000
Windows 98
Redhat 6.2 (for stuff)
Redhat 7.0 (while it was beta)
Debian Woody
Slackware 7.0
FreeBSD 4.0

all on my 27 gig disk http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

also every partition could read every other one, except for win98->ntfs

since there are ext2 drivers for Windows 2000 that hook into the shell, so you can use Windows explorer to browse your linux disks.

that was leet, but it was mega unstable.
heh.

[jbstew32]

I have Win2k on a FAT32 partition, and it runs much faster than when it was NTFS. Plus, win98 can actually see it.