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Multi Boot

Started by mridang_agarwal , Feb 25 2007 12:49 PM

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mridang_agarwal

Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:49 PM

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Hi Guys,
I want to multi boot XP, Vista and Red hat Linux. In what order do i need to install? I already have XP intstalled. Now i just need Vista and Red hat Linux?

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ultimateslacker2

Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:50 PM

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Hi mridang agarwal

How big is your hard drive?

How big do you want the partitions.

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Doomed_to_a_pathetic_computer

Posted 25 February 2007 - 04:47 PM

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Well, you should install Windows first because Windows will save over your boot loader with theirs and their boot loader only acknowledges the existence of Windows operating systems.

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mridang_agarwal

Posted 25 February 2007 - 08:29 PM

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its 80GB (~75GB) so I've made three 25GB partitions. So what you're saying is that I should install XP first, then Vista and then RED HAT?

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ultimateslacker2

Posted 25 February 2007 - 08:33 PM

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Yeah install xp first.

Than make all the partitions the file system NTFS.

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mridang_agarwal

Posted 25 February 2007 - 09:50 PM

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Great! Thanks for the replies guys.

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ultimateslacker2

Posted 25 February 2007 - 09:51 PM

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No problem :whistling:

Tell us how everything goes.

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fleamailman

Posted 26 February 2007 - 04:10 AM

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I did the same for xp with kubuntu, kubunbu just creates a partition for itself from the spare space in the windows partition, there was no need for me to divide the disk beforehand