Quintuple booting

[lexon]

No problem.



lexon

[Fred]

lexon,

lol... You are a little short on hard drives aren't you?

Fred

[DrHu]

Ha Hah

Big iron
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/syste ... -Clusters1
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=372008
--no problemo..

Linux. itself..
http://www.coraid.com/PRODUCTS/NAS-Gateways
--no problemo

[lexon]

About four years ago or so I found drives on sale. The best was a 80gb drive at a chain store in my area that had them for about thirty dollars. They did not have the brand advertised but sold me a different brand, cut a few dollars off, and I had a newspaper coupon also. Ended up paying $16.95, plus sales tax. None cost over $50.00 US funds. Two came with two desktops.
I have one 20gb, two 30gb, three 80gb, plus an external 80gb drive. Also, the external is only powered up when backing up data. I use the KISS principle. A key unlocks and locks the drive.
When I started with Lindows over five years ago, I did a lot of forum reading and vowed, never to mess with multi-booting. No multi-boot heartburn ever. My way.

lexon

[DrHu]

When I started with Lindows over five years ago, I did a lot of forum reading and vowed, never to mess with multi-booting. No multi-boot heartburn ever. My way.

I am guessing, since your drives aren't racked, that you swap in each drive to boot the foreign OS (whichever that is..)

I used to do that, but I got fed up swapping in hard drives to boot the other OS, whichever I had installed onto various drive(s), now I just use Linux, and if I need another OS
--I just use virtualbox (since I don't need an OS for games) and have at it..

And yes it did eliminate any concerns about multibooting an OS, since it was a single OS drive swap and boot sequence..
--plus the multitude of hard drives sitting around inside drive cases