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04-03-2011

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In theory, a partitioned USB bootable system should be doable but so many systems are so bad at booting USB that I wouldn't depend on this setup working anywhere, ever. And the perennial problem with multibooting is, one slip-up and you lose absolutely everything else on the drive.

Another problem is that different OSes may demand different partitioning schemes, and naturally more than one type of boot sector can't coexist on one drive.

How much space is necessary depends on your OS and your needs. You can run linux in 200 megs but don't expect a fancy GUI system.

What's a "power user"?

I wouldn't bother with Haiku. BeOS was discontinued before 64-bit x86 processors were even invented, and every open release since then has been not just backwards-compatible but binary-compatible with it -- a bit of a dead end. Linux and BSD are indeed quite different from each other.

In the end, I'd just get another hard drive for your computer, swap it in, and see what you can install on it. Without a normal computer though, even that's going to be difficult. Maybe you can find a "throwaway" PIII/P4 system someone'll part with for a song and play with things safely on a computer that's not your main one.

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

grub-install

GRUB-INSTALL(8) 					  System Administration Utilities					   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB to a device

SYNOPSIS

       grub-install [OPTION] install_device

DESCRIPTION

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -v, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --modules=MODULES
	      pre-load specified modules MODULES

       --boot-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory

       --grub-setup=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-setup

       --grub-mkimage=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-mkimage

       --grub-mkrelpath=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-mkrelpath

       --grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap

       --grub-probe=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-probe

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --allow-floppy
	      Make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes.

       --recheck
	      probe a device map even if it already exists

       --force
	      install even if problems are detected

       --disk-module=MODULE
	      disk module to use

       INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

       grub-install copies GRUB images into /boot/grub, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot sector.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub-mkconfig(8), grub-mkimage(1), grub-setup(8), grub-mkrescue(1)

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at
       your site, the command

	      info grub-install

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5				   October 2011 						   GRUB-INSTALL(8)