On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, kenneth gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote:
> finally succeeded. I did not use lvm. What I did: Congrats. However, the mystery behind the 40GB (from a another thread) remains unresolved. I would suggest you close that thread with your finding. The n00b sys admin may learn a few things from that experience. > 4 booted from the fedora installation dvd and restored grub. I now have > a nice dual boot system - I still have one more partition available, > should I install mandriva, or does someone have suggestions for > something more exotic? FreeBSD? If your CPU [a] and motherboard are LKVM capable + 4GB of RAM, then I would suggest that you keep one primary OS and keep all the rest of the hard disk for your /home and experiment with the different OS in a LKVM environment. [a] Personal observation, dual core with 2 threads/core has given me better multitasking between my VMs and other desktop apps running in the primary OS. -- Arun Khan "As a layman, I would say we have it, but as a scientist I have to say, 'What do we have?'" Rolf Heuer, Director General CERN on the announcement of Higgs Boson particle. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc