OSes

[Wendell Cochran atrypa@xxxxxxxx]

Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:19:08 +0900
Peter Evans 

> Jordan Fox on a system that already has four OSes loaded:
>> Given sufficient hard disk real estate -- which usually isn't
>> much of an issue these days -- one could easily add Linux or
>> other WINs to that mix.

>It's not quite that simple. For example, it's my understanding that most
Linux distros are happiest when they have three partitions to
themselves.
And NB that's partitions, not just logical drives. Well, a single drive
is limited to a maximum of four partitions. There are ways to install
various elaborate combinations of operating systems, but you may find
that you need a second physical hard drive (no matter how gargantuan the
first one may be) or careful thought or both.


I've wiped all traces of Microsoft from my system, but for a year
Red Hat Linux & Win95 coexisted on the same disk. Mllions of Linux
users do the same; the non-secret is LILO, which loads whatever
operating system
you choose from those installed.

Other multiloaders exist, but LILO is standard equipment.

Partitioning can indeed be a puzzle, but Peter may be happy to learn
that it's far less restrictive than he has been led to believe.

Wendell Cochran
West Seattle































lled (or, if you
prefer, "preinstalled"), selected via a switch simply labeled "A" and
"B".
Casio is careful not to refer to it as Linux, and demo models (in Japan,
anyway) lack it altogether.

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Peter Evans peter@xxxxxxxx