Re: How many distro on a HDD
- From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:30:22 GMT
AZ Nomad wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 19:06:34 -0500, Serge Goyette <sergegoyette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
Will be using linux in short time and I am not dure of whici distro to use.
I will be using two HDD, both in a tray.
How many distro can I install on a HDD in order to be able to use a multiboot approach.and what type of partition should I make
You should be able to put between several thousand and perhaps a million or two depending on the size of your hard drive and the number of packages you install.
Lilo might have a limit of 65000; your patience might be limited by how long it takes to scroll through the list.
LILO has a limit of 19, I've hit it in the past. And there is a limit to the number of partitions allowed as "extended" partitions, although I don't remember what it is. And the LILO limit is on the number of *kernels* rather than distributions, I had Win98, Slack, Redhat, and BSD, and each of the Linux distros had several kernels.
How to set it up?
/boot - primary partition 500MB or more
You can share the kernel and initrd files between distributions if you build your own, if you use modules you need /lib/modules shared as well.
SWAP - primary partition, size of RAM you intend to have + 1GB.
If you don't mind a LOT of overhead you can share a swap file on a partition in VFAT format. It's slow, just use a raw swap partition for Linux.
/tmp - shared partition between all Linux distros.
/usr/local/tests - put things you want to try on various distros here
your /home directory will have various config files for each distro.
After that one big partition for each distro. There are actually only a few flavors, usually based on Slackware, Redhat/Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva, or Debian. They are more alike than different as you will find.
PS: you can eliminate most by reading some reviews rather than evaluating each one yourself, which will take a decade or two off the time needed.
-- bill davidsen SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com .
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