Today's project "Quad Boot"

CMonster · July 27th, 2003, 12:56 AM

Mandrake 9.1, SuSE 8.2, Redhat. 9.0, and XP Home (a little less than 14GB each) on this little box I'm typing from (currently Redhat 9.0) , it will be used as a "help desk" box:

Athlon XP (whatever) running at 1.2Ghz, 512MB, GeForce 4MX, 12xDVD, 24X CDRW

I will discuss the ease-or not of Nvidia drivers, DVD/MPlayer, and Redhat NTFS support at a later time.... now I'm tired...been installing all day.

nukes · July 27th, 2003, 08:47 AM

You shouldn't have any trouble at all. You could probably save some space with the linux systems by giving them all the same /boot and /home partitions and just copying their individual kernels to /boot. You can boot as many BSD/Linux systems as you want from GRUB, and it will boot XP as well.
However, if you're having multiple versions of windows on it, use XOSL (which I think you are anyway) and you will have a much easier time.

CMonster · July 27th, 2003, 02:53 PM

Oh I meant that it was already up and running -I was tired from installing the software all day. I will do a little distro-to-distro comparrison on things which are not typically pre-configured.

For example: NVIDIA driver -all distros were easy using the latest integrated driver/install script from NVIDIA, but the Mandrake box already had an older version of the accellerated driver running (out of the box) so I had I didn't have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:

Installing NVIDIA for all 3 distros:

as root:

1. downloaded latest .run driver/install script to /root using Mozilla

2. open an xterm and type init 3

3. login as root

4. since I'm already in /root directory, I type sh NVIDIA*

5. follow prompts to install the driver

6. edit /etc/X11/XF86Config files to load "glx" in the modules section, and change 'nv' to "nvidia" as the driver -I used vi editor but I suppose someone could type "startx" go back into the gui, find and edit the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file, then restart X.....

all in all took less than 3-minutes each to install NVIDIA in these 3 distros

CMonster · July 27th, 2003, 03:04 PM

Windows XP-Home (I purchased a sticker license for this so I would have a LEGAL copy to used as follow-along during tech support phone calls) took about 70 minutes to install... I haven't done any customizing to XP yet...

Each Linux distro, loaded with applications, took 50-minutes or less, with about an additional 15-minutes each of customizing after install

ArcticFox · July 27th, 2003, 08:57 PM

Pretty nice, now I still have tons of work to do on my MultiBooty, 37+ OS project...

CMonster · July 28th, 2003, 01:12 AM

Oregon -maybe I'll move there someday.... 37 OSs... so many OS so little time

ArcticFox · July 28th, 2003, 01:51 AM

Off topic, but keep an eye on Oregon's weather: this summer I think is a record high, I'm sweating like mad.