Re: Question on running multiple Linux distributions along with BSD and windows

2004-04-20 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 10:28, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > Hi, > > I have Windows XP and Debian running on my machine, with Lilo as boot > loader. > > Planning to add FreeBSD and Gentoo. > > 1) Do I need to have a separate boot partition for each Linux version? > > 2) Is there a simple way to man

Re: Question on running multiple Linux distributions along with BSD and windows

2004-04-20 Thread messmate
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:16:01 -0600 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Incoming from Sanjay Chigurupati: >> >> I have Windows XP and Debian running on my machine, with Lilo as >boot> loader. >> >> Planning to add FreeBSD and Gentoo. > >There are HOWTOs for this and many other questions at w

Re: Question on running multiple Linux distributions along with BSD and windows

2004-04-20 Thread alex
Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: Hi, I have Windows XP and Debian running on my machine, with Lilo as boot loader. Planning to add FreeBSD and Gentoo. 1) Do I need to have a separate boot partition for each Linux version? I'm not sure what you mean by "a separate boot partition for each Linux versi

Re: Question on running multiple Linux distributions along with BSD and windows

2004-04-20 Thread kd4d
Hi Sanjay: Are you going to have to repartition the disk? Or, can you just add another disk for Gentoo/FreeBSD? That would be MUCH easier... Mark > Incoming from Sanjay Chigurupati: > > > > I have Windows XP and Debian running on my machine, with Lilo as boot > > loader. > > > > Planning to a

Re: Question on running multiple Linux distributions along with BSD and windows

2004-04-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sanjay Chigurupati: > > I have Windows XP and Debian running on my machine, with Lilo as boot > loader. > > Planning to add FreeBSD and Gentoo. There are HOWTOs for this and many other questions at www.tldp.org -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advan

Question on running multiple Linux distributions along with BSD and windows

2004-04-20 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, I have Windows XP and Debian running on my machine, with Lilo as boot loader. Planning to add FreeBSD and Gentoo. 1) Do I need to have a separate boot partition for each Linux version? 2) Is there a simple way to manage boot loader, where I could just add partitions in the free space and u