i've not tried this with vista at all yet so i don't really know the catch alls. However with XP and buntu you definently what to install XP first as ubuntu will then sort it's bootloader out for you automatically. It should also be possbile to chain bootloaders. IE you install xp and Vista onto the 160gb disk and let them sort them selves out with the MS bootloader. You then install ubuntu on the 80 gig disk and edit grub so that it includes an entry that points to the bootloader on the MS disk
<br><br>I'm guessing you to go with XP, VIsta and then ubuntu. Perhaps install everything first and check it works and then go back and install all the drivers etc.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/09/2007,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Colin McCarthy</b> <<a href="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com">binarysignal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all, I would like some advise and suggestions about how to best 'triple boot' my new computer. I have done the old google thing and found lots of posts about triple booting however all the How-to's seem to be written using a single hard disk. I plan to have one 80GB disk for Ubuntu, then one 160GB disk partitioned for XP and Vista. I am then going to have a 500GB drive for shared data. All the drives are SATA.
<br><br>So should I start with Ubuntu first or the MS installs? This guide (<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=220452" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=220452
</a>) says XP first. And this guide (<a href="http://www.hevnikov.com/blog/2006/11/13/triple-boot-xp-vista-ubuntu-with-single-boot-screen/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.hevnikov.com/blog/2006/11/13/triple-boot-xp-vista-ubuntu-with-single-boot-screen/</a>) Ubuntu first. I am not bothered about having a single boot manager. I will mainly be using Ubuntu, so am happy for Grub to give me Ubuntu and Windows OS option and then having another Vista Boot Manager for XP and Vista.
<br><br>Thanks<br><span class="sg">Colin<br><br><br>
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