On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Tom Horsley<tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:38:08 +0200 > Valent Turkovic wrote: > >> I'm wondering what tricks do you use when you are creating partition >> schemes for your laptop or desktop... > > For the ultimate multi-boot machine I setup at work to have as many > different linux distros as possible for testing tools under different > systems, I was initially stymied by the fact that /boot can't be > in an LVM and if I don't use LVM I can't have more than 15 (or > is it 12?) partitions. I finally concocted a ridiculous scheme > which actually works well: I have a single 60MB /boot partition > shared by all my different test installs by using dd to copy > /boot out to a plain file or into /boot from a plain file depending > on which system I want to boot. A few shell scripts and grub > tricks to automate things, and each linux thinks it has > its very own /boot so they don't interfere with each other :-). Could you be persuaded to publish more details on these tricks on your blog or here? ;) -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
