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07-26-2003, 09:56 PM
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Today's project "Quad Boot"
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.
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07-27-2003, 05:47 AM
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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.
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07-27-2003, 11:53 AM
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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
Last edited by CMonster; 07-27-2003 at 11:57 AM.
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07-27-2003, 12:04 PM
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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
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07-27-2003, 05:57 PM
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Pretty nice, now I still have tons of work to do on my MultiBooty, 37+ OS project...  | |
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07-27-2003, 10:12 PM
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Oregon -maybe I'll move there someday.... 37 OSs... so many OS so little time  | |
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07-27-2003, 10:51 PM
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Off topic, but keep an eye on Oregon's weather: this summer I think is a record high, I'm sweating like mad.
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