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- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I bet his girlfriend was impressed....
- samspoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait. So really this guy just booted Dos, Windows, BSD, Solaris and Linux. I see 5 operating systems not 100+. He should try some BeOS, QNX, SkyOS, OSX hell there's a billion more than the core popular ones.
NOTE: Linux distros don't count as a new operating system. It's the same ***** kernel. - moorey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a "HowTo: Ask 'why?' in 100 languages"?
- saikee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I joined Digg after seeing the comments.
I did it because it seems hard for some but easy for me.
Believe me some of the 97 Linux distros were not all designed to be booted beyond 137Gb barrier in the hard disk and never in their life to anticipate the 60th partition. So it did require a deeper study into just the surface.
If you bother to read the thread you will find 83% systems were booted by the same commands regardless if it is a Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris. I thought this is worthy of telling others.
I got into it in helping the Linux community to overcoming booting problems. The work I did has proved very useful for me to answer users stuck with booting problems on 2 or 3 systems, as I most likely got the same systems myself.
I didn't break any new ground. Grub has been there all the time. I just picked it up and used it in the standard way.
My guess is that is what Linux is all about. Until you start to use it you never know how much effort the contributors have put in for the public good. - samspoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Both would boot fine...This really isn't that amazing of a feat...running multiple operating systems isn't anything new...putting 100+ isn't EARTH SHATTERING it's a waste of time and pretty laughable.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+197 linux distros? What on earth for when most of those 97 are almost the same OS, just some minor changes.
- woodyns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Let him try working on them all at the same time...that will be cool; othwerwise, why the heck to have so many OS in one pc unless he is a testing monkey.
- Tolpero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg this just for the effort, must have been quite frustrating install galore :)
- volatileacid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0some people have too much time on their hands.
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd say that's a wee bit of Overkill.
But still cool. - sapolion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Really cool. He illustrates using Grub as a tool to get around the problems of dual booting environment. Can't wait for him to figure out how to boot OSX and Vista, too. Oh and he's psychic, answering most of the questions posted as comments, such as "why?" and "but I thought you could only have x partitions?" before they were even posted.
- l337dexter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0overkill, but cool none-the-less
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A lot of people said this couldn't be done a couple of years ago. On the Screen Savers this college kid ended up doing it with 20 or so OS's. He had OS's that I never even heard of, I think Leo said he was going to help put him in Guinness book for his achievement. This guy blew away that kids record.
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow sorry dexter, I didn't read your comment,... I basically posted what you said but a little different. d'oh!
- JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is this the same dude that was on TSS showing off his multiple booting box?
- justinp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old and stupid.
- spoonman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm confused, because I was under the impression that you could only have 4 primary partitions on one drive. I've tried this with XP, Kubuntu, and OSX86 and both qtparted (a PM clone) and XP's diskpart won't let you create more than 4 (I tried to have XP, Kubuntu, Linux swap, AF for Apple, and FAT32 for data share). Anybody know how he partitioned the disks? Does Partition Magic allow more than 4?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And I thought it's sad for me to be 15 and never have had a girlfriend...
- neoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not really a point, but pretty amazing he got all his time to just install OSes
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0eh, done for "glory" of the hack.
I've seen more though. This guy didn't even bother with HURD-, QNX-, L3 or Mach-based operating systems, L3/L4 microkernel-based OSs, etc. etc.
But, good job. - gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0multi-booting *ahem*
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jesus H. Christ -- now that's a distro hopper!
- znxster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i think all i can say.. is there is "glory" in productive hacks.. this is just freakish..
- hiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^ Um "adding"
- Shinku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's cool in a very useless way.
+dugg for the hell of it - FlappJaxXx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what is the point? someone hook this guy up on some matchmaker website.
- TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So what does he use as his primary os?
- SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes the 97 are almost the same, but it would be equally impressive if he used 97 copies of the same distro. I didn't think grub could handle half that many partitions. Now all he needs is to get them all working with Xen and get them all booting at the same time.
If you actually take the time to read the article, there is a lot of good information on grub that isn't very well documented even on the grub's host site. - jj555298, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why.....
- saikee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nibus,
It is privilege to bump into you.
I am actually an active member in various Linux forums help others to overcoming booting problems. It seems many users do not realise how simple booting can be so I "retained" every system I installed. In answering many forum members questions I could look at my box to investigate their problems as chances are I would have their systems too.
All my non-MS systems are free downloadable OSs installable for a PC so systems on different platforms are out. If I can find more PC systems I will certainly put them into the box. I managed to get Grub to boot Darwin x86 too but due to lack of CPU driver its kernel panics. None of my 4 AMD-CPU desktops and one Pentium-laptop in the house could run Darwin so I did not mentioned it in my thread.
Your work was much harder 4 years ago because Linux was in a much poor state of development. I have since added a Post #11 to the 100+ system thread to suggest why it is ripe to install a large number of systems in 2006. I have many advantages that you did not have and so technically you have achieved considerably more with even less systems booted. May be you can honour my thread to put your link personally there as. I did look at your article when I nearly finished mine. I got the feeling some of your systems may be difficult to source now.
I don't mind all form of comments. I can only assume those speaking critically of my effort have in-depth knowledge but unwilling to share with me by pointing out where my shortcomings are. Viewers speaking my operating systems are "pirated" may not be aware 99% of Linux and BSD are free and there are open source versions of Solaris and Darwin freely available.
Linux is a logical system and so it is easy to work with. Its knowledge is in the public domain and so I can learn it easier and quicker than any commercial system that may have parts not revealed to the public. I am not doing any harm but contributing my tiny little effort to advance our understanding in booting operating systems. Thus negative comments don't bother me at all.
The real heros are the authors and maintainers of Grub. Without their good effort Grub would not be able to excels the other boot loaders and makes our life easier. - justinm99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Talk about having too much time and money on your hands...
- iXneonXi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow great job saikee!
One of the first people to read that guide :D
And yes, brudus, thankyou for saying "Because"!
He's got more guides in his profile(s). Check this guy out @ TechSupportGuy and Linuxquestions also.
http://forums.techguy.org/members/120069-saikee.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/member.php?find=lastposter&t=414539 - slithy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0QUOTE:I'm confused, because I was under the impression that you could only have 4 primary partitions on one drive. I've tried this with XP, Kubuntu, and OSX86 and both qtparted (a PM clone) and XP's diskpart won't let you create more than 4 (I tried to have XP, Kubuntu, Linux swap, AF for Apple, and FAT32 for data share). Anybody know how he partitioned the disks? Does Partition Magic allow more than 4?
You are only allowed to make 4 primary partions, but I believe you can make as many logical partitions as you want. - tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course it's pointless. Duh.
Just like climbing a mountain is pointless. You do it for yourself. Nobody else. You do it just to say you've done it and were the first one to do it.
Psychology 101: Man's quest for uniqueness - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's uhh.... interesting. Dugg cause it's something....useless but cool.
- hiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Done because it was there to be done!
And Dugg just to spite all the people assing comments just to say they won't Digg it :P - gypsyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Beats trying to run round a track faster than some other dudes.
- geeko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, this guy is my freakin' hero.
- nibus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, I've got to give credit to Saikee - 97 is quite a number.
I'm that guy that had 39 systems on my box on TechTV 4 years ago. One of the things that I realized during the process of building it was that the number of linux distros bootable on one machine was limited only to your hard drive space and patience. I stopped at 10 systems because I wanted to put lesser known OS's on instead of just a whole bunch of linux distros. Saikee has taken it in a different direction, going for the gold with the linux distros, but not so many of the other types of systems. His use of Grub was very impressive. I have contemplated creating another multiboot box, but time constraints have prevented me.
I would like to have seen a little more variation, like some lesser known unixes - minix, qnx, beos, yellowtab, oberon, atheos, OSX, as well as more flavors of windows. I had pretty much all versions of Windows from 1.01 to XP.
I can't say for Saikee, but the main reason I built my box 4 years ago is because it was uncharted territory. No one had done it, so I thought it would be a fun challenge. And it was, I learned a lot in the process and met some cool people. People who scoff at the idea should really take a look at how they spend their own time - like gaming for example. Its fun sure, but what do you accomplish? Everyone has different interests so don't bag on someone for trying something different.
Here's a link to the list of systems I had running 4 years ago on TechTV for those that are interested.
http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/39860/Richards_Multiboot_Menagerie_pg5.html - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0um big deal. he installd 97 linux distros. he could have installed one and it would have been the same thing.
How about installing 30 DIFFERENT Oses and not just 97 copies of hte same thing... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0After reading this, I'm going to try it out when I get another box...
- cwcheang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0very cool.
- lzlaxhacker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4the real question is, why would you even bother?
later - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0one question...WHY ???
- orangemarmalade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0a) what do you do with that many OS's?
b) he musta been really bored one month - Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5This guys penis must be huge.
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0WOW. Not really unfathomable--I've known about partitioning and multi-boting for a while--but WOW.
I just wonder how closely the Business Software Alliance will check "saikee" for pirated software. ;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Seems like someone had too much meth that day. What an asshat. I could rig up my car to run on 2 engines with enough work, but what's the ***** point??
- Kyderdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0>the real question is, why would you even bother?
To get on digg..
No Digg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0
Its not that hard.
I used to have a couple of copies Windows, 4 Linuxen, OpenBSD, BeOS, OS/2, and SolarisX86 setup on one system to multiboot.
Heck, I don't think I have a single system since the mid 90's that didn't have at least 3 or so OS installed on it. -
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