Dual boot?

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rennen01 · #1 Post by **rennen01** » 2007-04-19 04:18

Do any of you dual-boot with other distros? And no, I don't mean Windows.

Blyiss · #2 Post by **Blyiss** » 2007-04-19 04:22

I do.

GMouse · #3 Post by **GMouse** » 2007-04-19 04:27

My laptop has a general purpose desktop dual-booting with BackTrack.

rickh · #4 Post by **rickh** » 2007-04-19 04:28

I do, Debian 32-bit, and Debian 64-bit.

ghostdawg · #5 Post by **ghostdawg** » 2007-04-19 04:30

I have debian 32 & 64 bit installed, along with Sourcemage Linux, a triple boot!

Jackiebrown · #6 Post by **Jackiebrown** » 2007-04-19 04:56

I have a chroot debian 32 bit install inside my 64 bit one -- I guess that's two os but no need to dual boot.

rickh · #7 Post by **rickh** » 2007-04-19 05:35

I have a chroot debian 32 bit install inside my 64 bit one

Why don't you write a comprehensive howto about that?

sinical · #8 Post by **sinical** » 2007-04-19 06:05

Jackiebrown wrote:I have a chroot debian 32 bit install inside my 64 bit one -- I guess that's two os but no need to dual boot.

I have a 32bit chroot inside the 64bit too. But I also dual boot into xp... visio.

rennen01 · #9 Post by **rennen01** » 2007-04-19 06:16

hhmm havent tried visio on linux yet

sinical · #10 Post by **sinical** » 2007-04-19 06:20

There is nothing to try. It doesn't.

DeanLinkous · #11 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2007-04-19 11:29

dual? why stop at two....
But then again it isn't different distros - just more debian installs. Occasionally it is some other distro - if someone has asked me to check out a different distro or something.

My laptop usually has at least two/three installs. Two debian right now-clean etch XFCE and Sid/Experimental gnome/xfce/icewm. As well as checking out http://www.elinuxstop.com/forum/ since I won their contest.

My wifes system (which I rarely get to touch) has four extra partitions just to test installs and store our data on.

My kids system (which I occasionally get to use) has a few partitions and is used to test installs as well as other things like backups.

rduke · #12 Post by **rduke** » 2007-04-19 12:15

I have 4:

Sid, Lenny, XP, OSX

Telemachus · #13 Post by **Telemachus** » 2007-04-19 13:25

rduke wrote:I have 4:

Sid, Lenny, XP, OSX

Is this on an Intel Mac? I'm thinking of trying to put Debian onto a recent intel iMac Mac, but from what I've read the whole bootloader issue is still pretty tricky. Just curious to know if you got it to work.

Oh, and I had been running Debian Sid and Sabayon until yesterday on one box. Got sick of Sabayon though and took back the space for Debian goodness. I will probably carve off a bit again by the end of the week...

rduke · #14 Post by **rduke** » 2007-04-19 14:07

Is this on an Intel Mac? I'm thinking of trying to put Debian onto a recent intel iMac Mac, but from what I've read the whole bootloader issue is still pretty tricky. Just curious to know if you got it to work.

No, sorry, I have a Sony Laptop (dual intel)

Telemachus · #15 Post by **Telemachus** » 2007-04-19 14:37

rduke wrote:
Is this on an Intel Mac? I'm thinking of trying to put Debian onto a recent intel iMac Mac, but from what I've read the whole bootloader issue is still pretty tricky. Just curious to know if you got it to work.
No, sorry, I have a Sony Laptop (dual intel)

Wow, I'm even more impressed. I thought it was (nearly) impossible to put OSX onto anything but Mac hardware. Cool.

rduke · #16 Post by **rduke** » 2007-04-19 15:08

Wow, I'm even more impressed. I thought it was (nearly) impossible to put OSX onto anything but Mac hardware. Cool.

Well, the intel macs are nothing more than ordinary pcs. Apple has put roadblocks to try to make it so you can't run OSX on an ordinary dual intel machine but, of course, they have been well hacked by now. I got the howto info from http://www.osx86project.org/

I don't actually use OSX except to impress my snobby mac friends that their "superior" hardware is, in fact, rather ordinary. This effort has been largely unsuccessful. In general, Mac users tend to be more ignorant of computer/os issues even than windows people. After all, who can admit that they paid a premium for nada. You have to admit that Apple Corp. is a genius marketer.

hcgtv · #17 Post by **hcgtv** » 2007-04-19 15:17

rduke wrote:I don't actually use OSX except to impress my snobby mac friends that their "superior" hardware is, in fact, rather ordinary.

As it stands now, I don't really lust for a Mac as I did when the G5's came out.

On the dual boot, I just have WinXP and Debian Etch on my laptop. There was a time I had Win98, OpenBSD, BeOS and Red Hat on a Sony Vaio, had a lot of fun back then.