Panarchy Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Hello! :DI know I may of already made a topic about this, but let's say that this is the revised version.I am wishing to quin-boot (5) operating systems (if you think it against the rules of this forum, you can ignore the wanting of booting mac leopard)These are the operating systems I wish to boot;1. Vista2. XP3. Mac Leopard4. Solaris5. UbuntuThey are all 64-bit systems.I have been told that grub is the way to go.I have a SATA 500GB harddrive and an IDE 400GB harddrive.On the SATA 500GB harddrive I have 2 partitons already, one of which (the XP one) I will be erasing.150GB = Vista 64-bit150GB = XP 32-bit_________________________________________________I hope you can enlighten me on how I can go about pent-booting my system.Thanks in advance,PanarchyPS: My specs;Case: Antec P182PSU: Antec Trio 650WMotherboard: ASUS P5K-E WiFiRAM: 2x 1GB of A-DATA 800 (Will be upgrading to Kingston 4x2GB of RAM, soon)Heatsink: Zalman 9700LEDCPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600Graphics Card: GIGABYTE 8800GTS 512MBMonitors: ASUS VW222 22'' + SAMSUNG 940N 19'' Speakers: Altec Lansing VS4121Keyboard: Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000Mouse: Logitech MX320 Laser Mouse_________________________________________(:P Now you can't say I forgot to list anything... except the plug... LOL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 I would simply repeat the excellent advice on this subject that you were given 8 weeks ago :-If you are really going to try to do 6 OS's, I suggest you read about partitioning hard drives as you will need hsf for MAC, ext3 & reiser for Linux and NTFS for Windows.Also you need to know about bootloaders so if it goes wrong, you can edit them.You also need to research which order to install them.(Windows, BSD) can ONLY be installed into a PRIMARY partition.Linux (and swap) can be installed into a primary or logical partition.If you do attempt this the best of luck, you will need it.IMHO I do not think that you will get responses any more constructive here ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Thanks, I found that information very informative.But what I want to know, is how to get GRUB working, and how to get it started.I have Vista 64-bit (Ultimate) installed and running well, on this computer now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Have you read the GRUB manual? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/This is a good GRUB resource:http://grub.enbug.org/and this:http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/I can't understand why you want more than one O/S on a single computer. Whenever I've had dual boot systems, one was used to the exclusion of the other so all that was doing was wasting disk space. Five operating systems on one machine seems definitely overkill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 I'm just doing it so that I will know how to use each operating system.The only ones that I will probably use... would be Vista & Mac...I'm also doing a Networking course, so Solaris should help me out there.Same goes with Ubuntu.And I don't think it matters for me, wasting a little disk space, I mean who really needs 900GB? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Just so you can follow Panarchy's new saga (if you are at all interested ?) This topic has also been posted @http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16953http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=618315 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 ^Oi, c'mon!DO YOUR RESEARCH :PI also posted this: http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=30199:lol:PanarchyPS: This forum has been most helpful, well this forum and winmatrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Google doesn't find that one (yet) !Your link also produces the screenshot below ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 ^Ah, well don't bother registering.Also, I have another question!Should I use Grub Legacy or Grub 2?Please reply.Thanks in advance,Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 This is the Grub that I most prefer5 * Rating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 ^:lol:Oh, and another question to add to the list (the list, number of unanswered questions: 2)http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatusUnder supported filesystems, I can't see NTFS... does it work with NTFS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 He's having you all on yet again. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Have you checked the legality of doing this? Specifically the installation of an Apple system on a non-Apple computer?BTW: 1. GRUB Legacy is no longer supported.2. As I understand things, GRUB comes into action before the file system is of importance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 ^So does that mean that I will need to erase my current partitons (2 partitons, total 300GB)?Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 I don't know. I've pointed you in the direction of the manual. Instructions for use should be in that.Step back for a moment and consider what you are doing. If you need to come to multiple forums, like you are doing, and ask so many questions, are you sure you should be embarking on this?Always find out what you are doing before you do it. As the well known acronym states RTFM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Is this any helpIf not - this might beThere is more here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Panicky, you must have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros, can't you understand that people have at last rumbled how you are leading them all on. Don't be surprised if many of these forums eventually ban you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 YAY!You just called me a rhinoceros! ... :|Interesting insults, be careful though, I have horns!!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 To multiboot as you want to, you need to know the background to chainloaders within Grub.Yes Grub does recognise NTFS.Take a look at this site.http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html...ter/grub_4.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Okay, thanks.Okay, now that's printed along with this guide: http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?act=at...ost&id=4488(You may need to be a member, if you want to see it, I can upload it to mediafire if you like.)Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 If you get it running with 5 operating systems on it will be interesting as MacOSX requires the hsf file system, Solaris requires UFS files system, Vista/XP requires NTFS file and Ubuntu requires ext3/Linux swap or reiser/reiserSF.Remember you can only put four operating systems on one hard drive and you also need to research which can be installed on a primary partiton and which can be installed on an extended partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted February 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Nah, that's alright, I have 2 harddrives.I also have Novell SUSE to install, so that can go on my other harddrive.So, can Windows (XP & Vista) [64-bit] recognise Linux, Mac & Solaris drive formats?(NTFS)Or would it recognise FAT32? Cause I am planning on formatting about 300GB of my drive (400GB) just to use as space, and it would be good if I can use that space on all the operating systems (I didn't offer FAT16 as a choice, since that would severely waste space on such a large partition) Panarchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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