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Panarchy · 10-31-2008, 11:41 PM

Hello

I'm going to make a 10 boot system (by the end of the year, first I'm going to buy 2 500GB SATA Hard-Drives and put them in RAID0, and I don't think I can buy that till the Christmas sales).

The following OS's I'm going to install (includes 5 or 6 open source OSs);

1. Linux (Ubuntu 64-bit)
2. Linux (Kubuntu 64-bit)
3. Linux (SuSE 64-bit)
4. Solaris
5. OpenSolaris
6. FreeBSD
7. Mac OSX Leopard
8. Windows XP 64-bit
9. Windows Vista 64-bit

Which will mean I will need the following file systems (correct me if I'm wrong);

1. Ext3
2. Ext3
3. Ext3
4. ZFS
5. ZFS
6. ZFS
7. HSF+
8. NTFS
9. NTFS
10. Swap

So now that I've layed this out, please tell me the following;

1. Will any of these OSs (and/or filesystems) be adversely effectly by having them in RAID 0?
2. Which of the OSs need to be installed on a primary partition?
3. Will they all be able to (except the microsoft & apple ones) use the one swap partition?

Please answer my questions... also interested in comments about this 'project'.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

PS: Didn't include any Server OSs as for the Server ones, I am going to use VMWare. (please don't suggest VMWare for these other OSs unless for some important reason e.g. without using this OS in VMWare, you won't be able to hear audio or use the internet)

PPS: Hehehe, what do you think of my title? Well let's hope that I'll be able to boot! Hehehe... (non=9, as in the geometric shape, not as in non=not/no!)

10-31-2008, 11:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
Panarchy Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 28 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate	Going to make a non-boot system (9 OS Multi-boot!!!) Hello I'm going to make a 10 boot system (by the end of the year, first I'm going to buy 2 500GB SATA Hard-Drives and put them in RAID0, and I don't think I can buy that till the Christmas sales). The following OS's I'm going to install (includes 5 or 6 open source OSs); 1. Linux (Ubuntu 64-bit) 2. Linux (Kubuntu 64-bit) 3. Linux (SuSE 64-bit) 4. Solaris 5. OpenSolaris 6. FreeBSD 7. Mac OSX Leopard 8. Windows XP 64-bit 9. Windows Vista 64-bit Which will mean I will need the following file systems (correct me if I'm wrong); 1. Ext3 2. Ext3 3. Ext3 4. ZFS 5. ZFS 6. ZFS 7. HSF+ 8. NTFS 9. NTFS 10. Swap So now that I've layed this out, please tell me the following; 1. Will any of these OSs (and/or filesystems) be adversely effectly by having them in RAID 0? 2. Which of the OSs need to be installed on a primary partition? 3. Will they all be able to (except the microsoft & apple ones) use the one swap partition? Please answer my questions... also interested in comments about this 'project'. Thanks in advance, Panarchy PS: Didn't include any Server OSs as for the Server ones, I am going to use VMWare. (please don't suggest VMWare for these other OSs unless for some important reason e.g. without using this OS in VMWare, you won't be able to hear audio or use the internet) PPS: Hehehe, what do you think of my title? Well let's hope that I'll be able to boot! Hehehe... (non=9, as in the geometric shape, not as in non=not/no!)