於 二，2008-08-19 於 01:07 -0400，Felix Miata 提到： > On 2008/08/19 14:17 (GMT+1000) Ding-Yi Chen apparently typed: > > > I don't really think you can install 4 or more OSs on a harddrive. > > http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/libata-gt15partitions.txt shows considerably more are > possible even using libata. It has 12 installed, plus, not counting the > extended itself, 7 partitions that have no installed operating systems. Just as I thought, 3 primary and 1 extended. :-) Indeed, you can further splits the extended. I should have say that. > > > A harddisk can have either 4 primary partitions or 3 primarys and 1 > > extended. I suppose the most stable configuration you might get is one > > primary for each OS, > > Stable? What does that mean? Modern operating systems, once booted, make no > distinction between primaries and non-primaries - all are treated equally as > logical, as any partition at all is nothing more than an artificial (logical) > division of a physical device. Maybe I should say trouble-less/less headache/simple configuration. You got the point, once booted, but firstly they need to be able to boot. :-) As far as I know, FreeBSD cannot install/and boot from in extended p, nor can OpenSolaris. And I quite doubt OSX86 can. Yes, modern linux live happily in extended, but unfortunately, not all modern OS is able to boot from extended. BTW, do you consider WinXP modern? :-) Regards, > -- > "Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand > its own way." 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
