Multiple drive/partition/OS's

Christo · 27 Feb 2007 at 00:26

I have two hard disks 320gb and 500gb both SATA II. I will use the whole of the 500gb for storage, (music/media) and the 320 for multiple OS's as well as storage. My question is how should I partition it (especially as only 4 logical partitions are allowed.

I Am going to install XP, Vista, OSX and Linux. So my thoughts were as follows:

60gb - Vista (Needs a large install)
20gb OSX
20gb XP (Probably temporary until I am comfortable with Vista)
10gb linux
the rest NTFS or FAT 32 storage.

now how should I partition that lot!? If I do the first 4 as logical what should I do the last?

Cheers guys

Will_3rd · 27 Feb 2007 at 09:41

You planning to run OSX on a Mac or illegally?

If so you better edit your post ASAP as it is against the forum rules.

nikuls · 27 Feb 2007 at 09:56

You planning to run OSX on a Mac or illegally?

If so you better edit your post ASAP as it is against the forum rules.

OSx86?

Will_3rd · 27 Feb 2007 at 10:06

nikuls said:
OSx86?

Indeed

Christo · 27 Feb 2007 at 10:49

Will_3rd said:
You planning to run OSX on a Mac or illegally?

If so you better edit your post ASAP as it is against the forum rules.

I thought you can run OSX on your PC now using the OSX disk providing you have the right hardware?

Christo · 27 Feb 2007 at 10:58

Will_3rd said:
You planning to run OSX on a Mac or illegally?

If so you better edit your post ASAP as it is against the forum rules.

Its perfectly legal as long as you have a legal copy of OSX providing you have the right hardware and apply some patches (I havent got all the HDD's yet tho). That isnt the point of the thread nor in any way related to my question but thanks for the 'help'.

Will_3rd · 27 Feb 2007 at 11:09

Chrisp7 said:
Its perfectly legal as long as you have a legal copy of OSX providing you have the right hardware and apply some patches (I havent got all the HDD's yet tho). That isnt the point of the thread nor in any way related to my question but thanks for the 'help'.

AFAIK Apple's EULA would disagree with this

But anyway something like Partition Magic should be able create partitions on a blank drive for you.

edit: you can't actually buy an Intel version of OSX, not yet anyway.

Christo · 27 Feb 2007 at 11:52

Will_3rd said:
AFAIK Apple's EULA would disagree with this

But anyway something like Partition Magic should be able create partitions on a blank drive for you.

edit: you can't actually buy an Intel version of OSX, not yet anyway.

Please stop discussing this in my thread as its totally irrelevant to the subject. And OSX runs on Intel natively, at any rate I have no idea I havent yet tried it because I havent partitioned everything yet. :rolleyes:

edit/ Infact the thread is ruined. I will start another elsewhere, please close this mods.