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Multibooting (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

True story: I did get up to 11 distros recently in a multiboot setup on my Thinkpad. I used Refind for the boot manager and everything worked well.

I had:
1 - Fedora
2 - Alma Linux
3 - Anti-X
4 - Slackware
5 - ElementaryOS
6 - Linux Mint
7 - Mageia
8 - EndeavourOS
9 - PopOS
10 - Lubuntu
11 - openSUSE

I'll probably make another run at it and try to get up to 20. I need to lay out the partitions better. I definitely need to add Void and Alpine to the list.

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[-] [email protected] 121 points 6 months ago
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touch: cannot touch `grass': Permission denied
[-] [email protected] 74 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago

Sourse is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago
echo "fuck it, just gonna login as root"
exit
root
alpine
touch grass
[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Command 'su' not found did you mean: command 'doas' from opendoas

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago
run0 touch grass
[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago
echo "fuck it, just gonna login as root"
exit
root
alpine
touch grass
[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

but in which distro should you run this?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

any loosely posix-following os will work with this.

EDIT: joke went over my head

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

shared home partition

[-] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Thank you, finally!!

goes down to 19 partitions

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

I agree with the ball, it would be easier and more convenient to use virtualization, containers or something similar.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

"I don't do it because it's easy, I do it because I thought it would be easy."

-OP maybe

[-] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago

I use Linux because it gets out of my way and lets me get things done.

To you Linux seems to be the thing that needs to get done...?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

Sure! What the hell, throw a couple of BSDs in there too, why not?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Sure! What the hell, throw a couple of BSDs in there too, why not?

yeah, I was thinking about that too. And OpenIndiana as well.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Yes! I missed the heyday of Solaris, so I've been sorely tempted to try out OpenIndiana.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Degenerate fucking distro hoppers, why can’t you settle down with TempleOS like a good fucking Christian?

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

One question: Why?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

If I don't have 1tb of wiggle room the system is entirely useless to me

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

I've never actually tried it, but I think you could use BTRFS subvolumes to multiboot without partitioning the physical space.

And then maybe even use deduplication across subvolumes?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

That was the exact thing I was going to suggest. It does work!

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

--help, found the Windows guy.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Just use a virtual machine

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

She's hella cute ☺️

also you forgot Debian

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Did you ever try to boot one of your other partitions using KVM ?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Did you ever try to boot one of your other partitions using KVM ?

No, I never tried that before.

So, you mean like if I am booted up into Fedora on /dev/sda2
then I use KVM to boot up Slackware installed on /dev/sda6 for example?
Nope, never tried that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Ooh, I'm just learning about systemd-nspawn, now I want to try it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

22, 1 for /home and 1 /home for that one odd distro that does things vastly different.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Whole disk LVM2 logical volume with a thin pool. Now you can have as many "partitions" as you like. Enable vdo deduplication and save even more space.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

if you're just trying them out, there is virtualbox...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

200 gigabytes per distro?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

For the little distro hopper in your family!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Why would one need anything other than Slackware?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

20-disk RAID5 it is then.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I forgot about this comic.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just use qubesos so I don't have to think about it, and I can run whatever distro I want.

Edit: spelling

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah. Voice to text is far from perfect lol

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