[KLUG Members] Multiple OS Installation on Thinkpad laptop

[Tyler Haske]

I don't like any of these approaches.

These are strongly worded suggestions, I enjoy being proved wrong, Also 
these are my opinions.

Numbers 1,2,3 are for laptops.

1) its a real pain installing any non windows OS onto a laptop, let alone 
configuring more than one version.
(I'm refering to getting /everything/ working not just the display and 
keyboard.

2) assuming you get the largest HD money can buy. 100gb, your going to have 
to share that space with ... 4 OSes?

3) If (I don't know) you want a machine to have any valuable data on it, 
your going to want to know the OS its running well enough that your 
confident you can recover any data without spending too much time or effort. 
You want it to run smooth enough you can work, and have a good reason to 
perform a backup.

4) I'd just use FreeBSD, its a great OS. OpenBSD would work fine, but that 
OSes emphasis is on security. I feel FreeBSD makes a better workstation. You 
might have to sacrifice for the BSD that has the best support for your 
machine.

On 9/9/05, bfdamkoehler at worldnet.att.net <bfdamkoehler at worldnet.att.net> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> Other thing : is it possible to write an image from a partition with
> lot of free space to another partition with similar space minus the
> free space, where both the partitions are on different disks.
> 
> The mechanism is probably dependant on the type of filesystem (Windows
> or Unix) and whether it contains bootable partitions. An image made with
> a disk level utility such as dd will come out the exact same size even
> if you restore it onto a bigger disk. An image made with file level
> utilities such as tar, winzip, cp, etc will use only the space required
> for the existing files and can be restored into a smaller partition that
> you have created by hand. If this is a bootable disk you will have to
> re-create the bootstrap loader which is typically stored in the master
> boot record (MRB). You can use dd to backup or restore either the
> partition table or the bootstrap loader, but this is more for disaster
> recovery of a disk than for replicating one.
> 
> 
> 
> Sanjay Chigurupati wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am thinking of installing FreeBSD, Open BSD and few flavors of
> > Linux on thinkpad.
> >
> >
> > My thinkpad has XP professional pre-installed on it. It also uses a
> > hidden partition to store diagnostic tools,
> > which are required for recovery.
> >
> > I would like to keep the IBM diagnostic and tutorial software as well
> > as the Burning software as they are
> > pretty good and I dont think I can get a rebate for XP after using
> > for a few months.
> >
> >
> > My problem here is that Open BSD and Free BSD both require primary
> > partitions.
> >
> > It looks like I might run into partition limit imposed by PC Bios.
> >
> > Other thing : is it possible to write an image from a partition with
> > lot of free space to another partition with similar space minus the
> > free space, where both the partitions are on different disks.
> >
> > Any work arounds suggested?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sanjay
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