Posted April 16, 200916 yr Okay, for those of you who have already played around with this stuff. I'm looking at setting up a laptop at work with a quad boot consisting of: XP Pro Vista Business openSUSE 11.1 Fedora 10 having only played around with a dual boot before and mostly being a mix os MS flavours, what would be the best partition setup for the above setup on a HDD with 150Gb of useable space? Idealy i'd like to have 5 partitions of sorts with a shared data section but from my initial fray into this, found MS only supports or allows you to creat 4 partitions max. Using the DVD isos from iiNet for both linux flavours. Telling them to use the 'blank' partition i've setup as a starting point, they insist on resizing both the XP and Vista partitions to 17Gb and 21Gb respectively and THEN using this partition i've told them to use and creating a total of 50Gb of unpartitioned space . . . now i know i'm no genius in things linux, but can someone please explain the best way to try and get this setup? There comes a time in every musician's life when they must decide what instrument they should master. Few. If any are ever worthy enough to master. The cowbell.
April 16, 200916 yr Partition Magic is something I was going to recommend... until I found out that Norton now owns the program... I found this: Ya know, If I were you, I would really consider loading up a virtual machine program such as vmware, or microsofts virtual pc. It will let you load all those OS's. I have vmware with 95, 98, me, all 2000 OS's, server 2003 (servers and desktop) xp and vista, and a few linux distros. They will also with 64bit systems. Check em out.... http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en They work really well and are cool. They are both a program that let's you install OS's in the program and work as NORMAL. I love vmware...love it love it love it. P.S. Dual boot is overrated and almost considered legacy now. I believe microsoft's virtual pc is free and vmware is about 50-60 bucks. Hope it helps. (here) edit::: Virtual PC VMWare Edited April 16, 200916 yr by mandatory05 "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 16, 200916 yr Author is there a way to stop them from wanting to resize both XP and Vista? I ask because it resizes those partitions but doesn't use any of the space it 'creates' or frees up to install itself into. There comes a time in every musician's life when they must decide what instrument they should master. Few. If any are ever worthy enough to master. The cowbell.
April 16, 200916 yr after you do it 3 or 4 times you'll get good at it McDethWivFries lol http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff136/paulwar_photos/735c4e74-282e-49b6-99c3-6c443f8c759f.jpg MSI970A Gaming Pro Carbon - AMD FX-8350 - 12GBytes - GTX 750 Ti 2GBytes
April 16, 200916 yr Not sure about the two windows ones... but can I recommend vmware for the linux distros...? I use fedora 10, ubuntu and fedora 8 all on VMware images and they work spectacularly well... especially since I can just pause the machine and resume it at any point later. As long as you get vmware tools installed they run basically as if you're running it as your primary OS. http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
April 16, 200916 yr I use the built in ones on the Windows Installers. Works like a charm but you gotta indicate the size you want in bytes. (Complete pain... 99999999 bytes Lol.) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
April 16, 200916 yr Author thats the thing tho, i already have four partitions setup C:\ = XP D:\ = Vista E:\ = (linux flavours) F:\ = Data but for some reason, both linux discs insist on resizing both the C & D partitions BEFORE installing onto E like i want it too. When i go to try and undo the C & D partition shrink the linux install wants to do, the only thing it will let me do is shrink it more . . . very frustrating /o: There comes a time in every musician's life when they must decide what instrument they should master. Few. If any are ever worthy enough to master. The cowbell.
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