[SATLUG] Error on Laptop

[Chuck]

Jim,

In the older Winblows days -- 95, 98, ME, and I think even NT insisted
that they be on the first partition.  Of course, LILO was good at
fooling those operating systems into thinking they were first when they
weren't.  I've heard they fixed that limitation in 2000 and XP.  But
since I'm not a Winblows expert, I can't say for sure.

As for booting multiple operating systems -- I knew a guy who had seven
OSs on a pair of 200 Gig drives when they first came out.  Redhat9,
Mandrake, SuSE, Caldera, SolarisIntel, Win2000 are the ones I can
remember.  And he was using a third party boot loader -- a commercial
product.  So, as far as I know -- you're only limited by drive space
since all of those above OSs will accept being on extended partitions.


Chuck



On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:49, Jim Wells wrote:

    Seth,
    I don't know what laptop or distributions of Linux you are using.
    However, I am triple booting my Desktop machine at home with Knoppix
    3.8, Ubuntu, and Win2K.  I installed Knoppix after Win2K and before I
    installed Ubuntu, I made sure to make a copy of the GRUB menu.
    Fortunately Ubuntu recognized that there was another existing copy of
    Linux on the machine and added it to the GRUB menu.
    
    Does anyone on the list know if there is any reason why someone couldn't
     quad boot (or higher) without any problems?  I know that using System
    Commander 2000 you are supposed to be able 20+? operating systems.  The
    only problem with SC2000 is that I believe you have to have Win, or
    possibly DOS installed first.
    
    Jim
    
    
    Seth Sanchez wrote:
    > I got it installed and it works fine. It seems that my hard drive wasnt 
    > under /dev/hda and had to change it. Although I would still like to go to 
    > the computer blast and see if I could triple or dual boot linux.
    > 
    
    
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