On 9/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Childs</b> <<a href="mailto:peterachilds@gmail.com">peterachilds@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Colin McCarthy</b> <<a href="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
binarysignal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><span class="q"><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.
</blockquote></span><div><br><br>I tend to aree with Dan, But I've heard it does not matter anymore and its perfectly possible to add Linux to the XP/Vista boot manager, (although not easy)<br><br>You should be able to add add both XP and Vista to grub so you don't have to go through two menus on boot.
<br><br>Windows will remove Grub on istallation, so I'd install Linux on the second drive and install grub both on the second drive and the first and do it last (ie after windows) so If windows later messes up grub you can always tell the machine to boot from the second hard disk (Probably when your doing your annual windows reinstall), (You can usally do this from the bios)
<br><span class="sg"><br>Peter Childs</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>It in fact looks like I am not going to be able to triple boot as the mobo I went for (MSI P35 Neo) is not ubuntu friendly for now. I went for this mobo as had all the features I wanted at a great price, I just never thought it would be an issue. I have just been so used to Ubuntu just working I wrongly assumed it would on this board. I am going to have a sweet Windows box though. Shame that Ubuntu will continue to be my secondary OS rather than primary.
<br><br>Colin<br></div><br></div><br>