On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:58 -0400, Bob Swanson wrote: > > Also, I -tried- to install Ubuntu as well as Centos on the new drive, but > they appeared not to care for each other.
Has more to do with the installer or route which your taking to install each distro. You can have as many physical OS installed as you want, so long as you have enough partitions. I am not sure what the limit is of extended partitions, I know there is only 4 primary, which usually best to have grub/bootloaders on a primary not extended partition. > Anyone got 3 OSes loaded on a single drive? There should be nothing preventing it, but if your trying to do it all graphically via eaches installers with minimal options and allot of defaults. It's likely not going to work. Installing multiple OS usually requires a few more manual steps you might be omitting or unaware of. Order of OS install might matter, etc. > (I also tried loading/booting Ubuntu from an external USB > drive -- no luck. Well, luck, but all bad.) Why is that? Is there bios support for it? Did you not get a boot loader going/installed on the USB device? -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
