Amarendra Godbole wrote:
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> On 10/7/07, stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have a new laptop that I would like to set up to have 4 different OS's
>>on. The OS's I would like to install are:
>>
>>OpenBSD
>>FreeBSD
>>Linux
>>Windows (XP r Vista)
>>
>>Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my
>>concern is about portions. If it is possible can anyone give me an idea how
>>best to approach this? Or a pointer to some docs?
> 
> 
> I have almost similar configuration on my IBM Thinkpad X61 laptop.
> Here is how I did it:
> 1. Install Windows XP/ Vista in the first primary partition.
> 2. Install OpenBSD in the second primary partition.
> 3. Install FreeBSD in the third.
> 4. Install Linux (Debian, in my case) in the fourth - which becomes
> extended because of the way Linux handles the partitions.
> 
> Use grub as your bootloader, as it can boot Linux from the extended
> partition. All other three OSes' will "chainload" through grub, which
> means you have to add entries to menu.lst of grub. Booting FreeBSD
> through grub is nicely explained here:
> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200102/grub.html. A similar entry needs to
> be made for OpenBSD too. Also note that grub starts the numbering from
> 0, so your partitions will be 0 for Win, 1 for OpenBSD, 2 for FreeBSD,
> and 3 for Linux.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> -Amarendra
> 
> 
>>Ate the moment the machine has the Vista part-ion, and it's recovery partition
>>(which I figure I don;t need), and a Linux partition on it. I can boot Linux,
>>or Vista using Grub.
>>
>>--
>>I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with anything.
>>I am the manager of all of Customer Service."
> 
> 

<Blasphemy >

Seems to me that the simplest and most flexible way to do this is to 
install Linux or Windows as your host OS and use VMware.  I do that on 
my MacBook Pro running OS X, and run OBSD, Linux, and Solaris as guest OSes.

Works great, and I can have all of them up at the same time, and network 
between them.

<\Blasphemy >