[wellylug] Multiple Boots from an 80 GB HDD (ACER # 4315 PC)

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Yes, in so far as each OS will take up disk space & you have 80Gb to use.

Live CD's & DVD's should not alter anything on your HDD unless you specifically instruct them to.

To install other Ubuntu/Linux distros you have two approaches available.

Use a boot loader as the menu for them, which requires you to install them  
natively onto the hard drive, generally in its own partition. So you will need to resize the existing partition to free up drive space.

Use a virtual machine, VMware, etc... this uses your existing install as the native OS, & allows you to run a second (& third, etc) OS as a virtual system under the first. This allows more than one to run concurrently, from the native system's partition. It also means your hardware is working harder, & your laptop does not have a lot of cpu or memory to spare. I'd at least throw another Gb of memory at it to support this approach. Cheap enough these days & easy to install on that laptop (my daughter has one)


HTH,

  Brent Wood




--- On Thu, 8/14/08, marchetti <marchetti at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> From: marchetti <marchetti at clear.net.nz>
> Subject: [wellylug] Multiple Boots from an 80 GB HDD (ACER # 4315 PC)
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 9:16 PM
> This is something I'll do eventually. This may be an
> obvious
> question, but does the number of OS' one can load
> depend
> upon the HDD size? That is to say Ubuntu # 8.04 appears to
> chew up quite a bit of the available space on my 80 GB HDD.
> It would seem I might be able to put perhaps two other
> Ubuntu versions on the HDD. For the moment I intend to try
> various versions of Ubuntu from a DVD, to get a clearer
> idea
> about what OS I prefer. Incidentally, apart from observing
> "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer",
> and being
> aware loading from a DVD( after checking the DVD is ok) is
> slower than from a HDD, are there any hiccups to be aware
> of? Cheers, Ken
> 
> 
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