Re: Multiple distros

["Greg Nash" <gregn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Bruce Smith wrote:
>
>> > I was looking for SCSI hard drives on Pricewatch and I noticed that
>> > seagate has a rather overwhelming 47 GB Monster drive...
>>
>> Wow!  What's that cost?
>>
>> > I couldn't imagine every filling this up with Linux, so I thought it
>> > would be cool to get a sufficiently large drive and install multiple
>> > distributions (and leave some partitions open for more distros).
>
>I dont know if this applies or not, but when i was installing RH 5.0 there
was
>a 5 partition limit set somewhere.  I had 3 win partitions, and the
diskdroid
>for rh wouldnt allow me to make any more partitions past five on my HD.  I
>dont have any idea if this is a set limit for my HD or bios or what, so i
>ended up having to erase one of my win partitions to fit linux.
>
I know there is a ?hardware ? bios limit for 4 primary partions but you
could set one to be a logical partion and just put your other partions in
side that. Partion Manager (a Free (shudder) dos ) program has instruction
on how to boot from a logical partion. it seems to work pretty good for me
I'm tri booting a win 95 win nt and redhat 4.0 with just lilo.

Greg