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| mannix14 2001-04-19, 9:18 am |
| im going to install 7 OS in a 20 gig hard drive. that would be win nt4, win2k advanced server, win2k server, linux mandrake 7, oracle 8, and novell 5.1. it's for classromm pruproses. ill be using system commander. does anyone know which is compatible with which? and which should be installed first. i dont want to waste a lot of hours just to whack the things i installed already.
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| Unregistered 2001-04-19, 9:40 am |
| Good Luck!
Even if you pull this off...Do you really think you will have any stability? Changes in different OS will enivitabally affect all other installations. This has been my experience and to save frustation( and to eliminate variables which are impossible to trace..) get your self another HDD. Its one thing to be a jack of all trades. Its another to learn how to properly configure each OS and build/rebuild as you go.
Attempt this and you will be looking at many wasted hours! | |
| mannix14 2001-04-19, 4:58 pm |
| thanks, but its just for school practice. my pfrofessor wants me to do a research if this is possible. but ill try to put all that i can in just one hard drive in different partition.
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| ccieToBe 2001-04-19, 9:19 pm |
| I don't know anything about System Commander, but I can give you some guidelines for LILO. Some of this information should carry over. It'll be a challenge to say the least.
Install the Windows variants first, and do so in chronological order (nt4, 2k). Then install Mandrake. I think (not sure) that at this point LILO will list the three OSs that have been installed so far by default. Be sure to make a LILO floppy. When you install Novell (NetWare?), make a note of where it's installed, then use your LILO floppy to restore LILO to the harddrive's MBR and manually add in NetWare.
Oracle makes programs, not an OSs, so you don't need to worry having it in the boot sequence. Assuming that you're installing 8i, just make sure you have at least a gig of space available for it (it may not be an OS, but it takes as long to install as most OSs).
This procedure SHOULD work. Let me know how it goes, especially with NetWare. I'm going to give that OS a try some time soon. | |
| chunder 2001-04-20, 1:04 am |
| your NetWare installation will need a DOS (FAT) partition. so, unless you are doing fat16 with your NT or fat32 with your 2000, you'll need a small DOS partition to start with... and even IF you ARE doing a fat partition for your nt/2000 OSs, i'd STILL do a small DOS fat16 partition (at least 35 megs if your doing nw5.1 -- i think). what i actually prefer to do is install DOS 6.22 and then slap my favorite "generic" cd-rom drivers onto that with an install disk...
this should be interesting. let's hear how it goes.
good luck. | |
| mannix14 2001-04-20, 9:13 am |
| thanks....
ill try it. ill let you know what happens.
mannix14 | |
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