[CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning

Tue Dec 18 03:44:38 UTC 2007
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From: "Frank Cox" <theatre at sasktel.net> 
To: centos at centos.org 
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:20:01 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane 
Subject: [CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning 

I want to set up a multiple "mode" computer with four separate Centos 
installations on it. The objective here is to have a "spare computer" that I 
can boot up into any of four "modes" depending on what I'm swapping it in for a 
the moment. For example, I want to be able to boot it up as a webserver, or as 
a fileserver, or as a LTSP-enabled application server. And so on. 

I have a computer here with two 300GB hard drives in it, which I plan to split 
into four 150GB partitions, one for each of my "modes". And I want to install 
Centos separately and independently into each partition, so I can just tell 
Grub to boot up using whatever partition I choose. 

What is the best way to accomplish this? I have a bad feeling that the drive 
partitioning tool is going to complain about having multiple / partitions 
unless I take steps to avoid that. 

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Have you thought about virtualization ? What hardware are you planning on running this on ? 

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