Hello,
AFAIK at least for Linux you need 1 primary partition of small size (200MB is nearly too big) which contains /boot if you want to use LVM. greetings, vitaminx 2009/10/3 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> > >> 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 > > -- irc ... #chezpaeule @ euirc mud ... vitaminx @ aardmud
