>> I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning >> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8 (Hackintosh), >> Solaris10, OpenSolaris, Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora, BSDs >> (FreeBSD and OpenBSD). The computer is a Dell netbook >> Mini9 which supports all these operative systems very well >>(with the Solaris family only the Wifi driver does not >> exist natively,and needs a driver designed for Windows). >> I need some advice about the right strategy to follow, >> especially about:
>> 1) For what OSs use primary partitions or logical partitions. The Linuxes can boot from logical partitions. Never tried to boot the Solarises from anything other than primary partitions; sorry. Never used Hackintosh or the other BSDs. >> 2) Different swap partitions for different OSs? The Linuxes and Solarises can share a swap partition. A former colleague once claimed that Linux could use a FreeBSD swap slice as a Linux swap partition (but not the other way around). He was very knowledgeable so I assume that it is possible. OS X uses swap files in its /var/vm directory, so Hackintosh probably does too and therefore must not need a swap partition. > Please tell us how you can manage to boot Leopard (OS X > 10.5) on a Dell Netbook. OS X has been hacked to boot on non-Apple hardware (and installers have been posted online); probably using the fact that OS X is based on Mach/FreeBSD. Technically interesting but morally... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
