I've just received a 250GB HD from RMA (free courtesy of a friend that no longer needed the drive) and have decided to use it to install a multitude of different Operating Systems to play around with to broaden my horizons. I am going to install the following OSes: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2, Windows Server 2008 Beta 3, Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, FreeBSD 6.2. Given that Server 2008 has by far the largest disk space requirements (40GB recommended, 80GB optimal - will be going with 80GB for this one), I need to partition my remaining ~150GBs of post-formatting space for use with the other 4 OSes. Any suggestions as to how to partition the remainder? I do plan on creating some small databases for each of the server OSes so I can become familiar with that aspect of running a server OS, but don't have any huge data-intensive aspirations for the remaining *nix variants.
sys info:
P4 530
i915G chipset-based mobo
2.5GB RAM
2x250GB HD (primary HD for Win XP, secondary for other OSes)
X1650 XT PCI-e
Pioneer 111D ATA DVD-RW
Liteon ATA DVD-ROM
no floppy
Also, since I have no floppy drive and am using SATA HDs will I run into issues with any of the aforementioned OSes or are they modern enough that it shouldn't be a problem? I would imagine the 915G chipset would have quite a bit of support by now, such that it wouldn't be a problem but I'd rather know beforehand.
Thanks in advance
sys info:
P4 530
i915G chipset-based mobo
2.5GB RAM
2x250GB HD (primary HD for Win XP, secondary for other OSes)
X1650 XT PCI-e
Pioneer 111D ATA DVD-RW
Liteon ATA DVD-ROM
no floppy
Also, since I have no floppy drive and am using SATA HDs will I run into issues with any of the aforementioned OSes or are they modern enough that it shouldn't be a problem? I would imagine the 915G chipset would have quite a bit of support by now, such that it wouldn't be a problem but I'd rather know beforehand.
Thanks in advance