[CS-FSLUG] More than one distro

[Warren Sanders]

Wade A Smith wrote:
> anybody know how to be able to run more than one distro?
>
> I must have MonkeySoft WinXP for work. <cuss>
> My main distro is SuSE10.0.
> But Xandros is SO seamless in connecting with MonkeySoft and it comes
> with StarOffice8 and CrossOver (not totally sure how to make use of it)
> that I would like to have access to it.
>
> How do I put Xandros on or be able to boot Xandros alternatively?
> Set the boot sequence to boot from SATA drive and then change the boot
> sequence to boot from the Xandros HD?
>
> I received a 500GB SATA drive and I'm thinking that I can set things up
> this way: 
>         WinXP (100GB)
>         SuSE10.0 (the rest?)
> IDE0 
>         Xandros (40GB)
> IDE1 
>         FAT32 (40GB)
>         linux /local (40GB)
>
> Ideas?  Comments? 

How about just doing a simple dual boot with a virtual Linux host as
your Linuxy platform for all the other nix OS's?  Linux-vserver, Openvz,
Xen...

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