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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Your thoughts on multi-boot systems | Posted by: ken27238 on 2010-02-16 13:07:09
I just installed 8.6 on a spare hard drive that I put into my G4 Sawtooth, It now Quad-boots into any of the following:
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Mac OS X 10.1.3
- Mac OS 9.2.2
- Mac OS 8.6.1
I was wondering what everybody thinks of have multiple OS's on there computers
| Posted by: Osgeld on 2010-02-16 13:15:57
on my main machine I have ubuntu and windows xp64
what usually happens is I start using one more than the other, and the next thing I know I have been using only one for months
:-/
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2010-02-16 13:19:57
Well, I have a B&W G3 running:
8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4.
From five partitions. (One 'Classic' and one OS X on each partition.)
My G4 Digital Audio runs 9.2 and 10.0 on one drive, and 10.5 on a second.
My netbook dual-boots Linux and XP.
My 'nettop' dual boots Linux and Win7.
My server dual boots Linux and Windows Server 2008 R2.
My primary "PC" desktop dual boots Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 7.
| Posted by: bhylak on 2010-02-16 13:21:16
On my netbook, (Don't ask the brand... 😀 ), I have Leopard, Snow Leopard, Ubuntu and Windows.
🙂
| Posted by: ken27238 on 2010-02-16 13:29:57
Well, I have a B&W G3 running:
8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. 8-o 😎 8-o
and I thought I was crazy 😀
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2010-02-16 14:10:56
Well, I have a B&W G3 running:
8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. 8-o 😎 8-o
and I thought I was crazy 😀
Nope, I take the crazy cake. 😛
| Posted by: ~Coxy on 2010-02-16 19:17:36
Woah, that is a crazy amount of OSes. I like the trick of having two per partition to avoid having an unmanageable number of them.
My PC has 10.5, 10.6 and Win XP all installed to seperate hard disks. When I get a new hard disk I will probably install Windows 7, too.
| Posted by: bhylak on 2010-02-16 19:20:36
I have 4 partitions, and I have one of the fancy boot loaders when you turn on the machine, like this: http://refit.sourceforge.net/screen.html
| Posted by: Mars478 on 2010-02-17 03:53:33
On my netbook, (Don't ask the brand... 😀 ), I have Leopard, Snow Leopard, Ubuntu and Windows. 🙂 What brand? MSI?
Dualboot annoys me because of the loss synchronization, etc, etc.
| Posted by: jruschme on 2010-02-17 06:54:59
I just installed 8.6 on a spare hard drive that I put into my G4 Sawtooth, It now Quad-boots into any of the following:
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Mac OS X 10.1.3
- Mac OS 9.2.2
- Mac OS 8.6.1
I was wondering what everybody thinks of have multiple OS's on there computers Ubuntu 6.10 is pretty old as versions go... I've actually got 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) installed on a Wallstreet and a Pismo.
The trick, in both cases, was to use the Alternate CD (not the Live one). The Wallstreet was surprisingly easy once I got the right set of BootX options selected. The Pismo was actually a bit harder as I had to manually edit the xorg.conf file.
Getting back to the original topic, the Wallstreet multiboots Panther, 9.2.2, and Ubuntu 9.04. The Pismo multiboots Tiger, 9.2.2 and Ubuntu 9.04, though I want to try and install NetBSD to the spare partition.
John
| Posted by: Tron on 2010-02-19 14:55:44
In My hackintosh I have Leopard,Win XP, and Debian in the same HD.
But in my iMacG4 and my 2 G4 MDD only 9.2.2.
I love Mac Os Classic (7.x 8.x 9.x) -it is the best os I know- and I think is a waste to have a other oses in a Os classic bootable machine.
| Posted by: Quadraman on 2010-02-19 16:01:33
Unless your computer is just for experimenting you need lots of big hard drives to run that many OS's. You're going to find that you will accumulate software for all those OS's along the way and having that many OS's installed on a single, small drive won't allow you to do much of anything useful since you won't have the drive space for very many apps. Some of us have enough difficulty keeping a single OS uncluttered and running smoothly, having that many installed on one drive is going to compound the difficulties.
| Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2010-02-19 16:01:51
Oh, yes, my IBM PS/2 Model 77 has IBM-DOS 7 and Windows 3.11 on one partition, OS/2 2.0 on a second, OS/2 2.1 on a third, and OS/2 Warp 4 on a fourth. (OS/2 3.x wasn't very interesting, comparatively.)
| Posted by: zerotypeq on 2010-02-19 17:29:31
I honestly don't see the point most of the time. None of my current systems are no longer dual booted. When I get an intel imac though I will dualboot snow leopard and win7. That would just be to play games and such, though.
| Posted by: 2simple on 2010-02-19 18:22:05
I nearly always put two [seldom more] os on every machine and if possible on separate disks. On older macs this is generally 9.2.2 & tiger. On a pc generally recovery console, ghost 8.0, and XP. And I always keep data on it's own partition on macs, windows and linux. An a little over the top example, my QS has two drives: big one for music with a small tiger rescue partition at the beginning , and a fast smaller drive with swap, tiger, applications, home, and os 9 in that order.
If it's not obvious why, this allows me to screw things up and just reinstall the os. Also allows diskwarrior to work fast from a different partition. Also protects my data short of disk failure. Also lets me in if the main os just checked out.
2simple
| Posted by: zerotypeq on 2010-02-21 12:29:19
Yeah, I always keep my data and os on separate partitions. It is really useful for if a system screws up or you want to upgrade the os and would prefer to do a clean install.
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