Triple boot OS?

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I have Windows XP Home. I have dual booted that with Vista. I got my hands on an Ubuntu disc from my cousin and I want to try triple boot? I searched on Google and stuff and found a video tutorial for dual boot only. What would I be looking into if I did the triple boot??

System specs:

Core 2 Duo E6400
Asus P5B
Patriot 1GB Single Channel RAM
nVidia 7600GT
80GB Hard drive - OS and programs
250GB - Data / garbage / etc.
 
Like partition magic? Either way, I'm going to format the 15GB's I have in my 80GB, and if any thing crashes, I'll just run XP and Vista again and run Ubuntu on my old Dell.
 
Like Toronado said above, I would partition the drive. I've had triple boot before, with Vista, XP Home, and XP Pro and it does work.
 
But they were all Microsoft. This is Linux... :(

I'll back up ALL of my data tommorow afternoon and then try to boot the Ubuntu onto my 15 gig partition I have left over from the 80 GB's I made for dual boot.
 
Sensibles solution. I don't think it matters what the OS is though. Its unlikely that your machine will discriminate against Linux :D
 
Uh, isn't there a limit of five partitions per HDD? That means you can't have a separate partition set aside for any storage like I do.
 
What I really want to do now... Is boot XP and Vista to my 250GB hard drive. Three partitions :

30GB for XP
30GB for Vista
190GB for data

120GB for backing up data every week or so.

and make my 80GB for Ubuntu???

How would that sound?
 
PLmatt91
What I really want to do now... Is boot XP and Vista to my 250GB hard drive. Three partitions :

30GB for XP
30GB for Vista
190GB for data

120GB for backing up data every week or so.

and make my 80GB for Ubuntu???

How would that sound?
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Do you plan on using Ubuntu as yous main OS?
 
Besides, even if there is a limit of 5 partitions per disk, its easy to overcome the limit by purchasing another HDD. Who would use 5 OS on one disk, anyway?
 
GT4_Rule
Besides, even if there is a limit of 5 partitions per disk, its easy to overcome the limit by purchasing another HDD. Who would use 5 OS on one disk, anyway?
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Linux takes up three partitions with a root, swap, and home partition.
 
You know what, screw this triple boot, I'll try this out on my old Dell, if I like it, then I'll decide on ditching Vista or not. But I am still going to reformat soon because six partitions together is too much. I'll do 40 / 40 partitions on my 80GB hdd and do 125 / 125 on my 250GB hdd. 125 for downloads, stuff like that, etc. And 125GB for games and large files.

Holla :)
 
Screw this triple boot. I'm going to reformat though and make four partitions altogether instead of six I have now.

40 / 40 for my 80GB hard drive, 40 or XP, 40 for Vista. Then 125 / 125 for my 250GB for games, large files, and just back ups I guess.

I'll do the Ubuntu on my old Dell to try it out first, then we'll see the rest.
 
Remember that when partitioning for Ubuntu you need two partition minimum (1 root and 1 Swap) and you will need a total of four partitions (1x Windows, 2x Linux, 1x shared) if you want to create a shared storage parition.

You can, if you wish, store files in /root but it is not reccomended.
 
Ebiggs
Whare do you plan on storing your data then? Root is not intended for storage, so you'd have to share some other partition or something.
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Having a home partition is not necessary since you can have a "home" directory within the main partition. It's useful to have a home partition, though, because you preserve all of your application settings, user-installed fonts, documents, etc. when you reinstall, upgrade, or even switch distributions.

PLmatt91
Like I said, I'll try Ubuntu on my old Dell, then I'll think about it. XP and Vista I guess for now.
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Have fun! 👍
 
Man, I'm really debating no whether to just do XP install and have 2 or 3 partitions? Because four still does seem a lot :lol: I don't know sadly :(
 
PLmatt91
Man, I'm really debating no whether to just do XP install and have 2 or 3 partitions? Because four still does seem a lot :lol: I don't know sadly :(
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You said its a 250GB drive right? I've split my 320GB like this:

~74.6GB Windows XP (I didn't set this one, or it would have been exactly 75GB)
200GB storage (NTFS)
~16GB home directory (Linux)
3GB root (Ubuntu)
2GB swap (Ubuntu)

I really don't expect to have much stuff on the home partition, simply because there isn't a need to download very many things for Linux.
 
Nahh, I'll keep away from Ubuntu on this computer. I just don't want to go through all the trouble :(

I'll just do four partitions with the Vista.
 
PLmatt91
Nahh, I'll keep away from Ubuntu on this computer. I just don't want to go through all the trouble :(

I'll just do four partitions with the Vista.
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You're running a release candidate of Vista right? If I were you I'd just run XP and Ubuntu.

If you change your mind about Ubuntu, contact me on MSN/AOL and I'll help you out.
 

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