I haven't triple booted before and I wondered if there were any pitfalls that I should avoid when installing the third OS? Such as with the bootloader, grub updates etc. Any advice appreciated.
TIA
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Triple Boot Question
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mrfingerz
, Aug 15 2012 01:18 PM
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Posted 15 August 2012 - 01:18 PM
I'm currently dual-booting on a laptop Vista and an Ubuntu 12.04 based distro. When I installed the aforementioned distro, I left free space and I had planned to add another, most likely Ubuntu based, distro to occupy that free space.
I haven't triple booted before and I wondered if there were any pitfalls that I should avoid when installing the third OS? Such as with the bootloader, grub updates etc. Any advice appreciated.
TIA
I haven't triple booted before and I wondered if there were any pitfalls that I should avoid when installing the third OS? Such as with the bootloader, grub updates etc. Any advice appreciated.
TIA
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 04:07 AM
Just the usual stuff, nothing special actually. I have 4 OSes to boot from right now, so 3 obviously shouldn't be a problem. But you'll have to screw around with the bootloaders and MBRs for a while to get it all just right for you.
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Posted 16 August 2012 - 11:10 AM
Thanks for the reply. That's kinda what I was asking about. Any advice on this to avoid monumentally screwing things up.
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Posted 20 August 2012 - 06:15 AM
Happy to see I was of help.
Go ahead with the install, and stay careful. Ask me(or PM me) if you have any more questions.
Go ahead with the install, and stay careful. Ask me(or PM me) if you have any more questions.
Edited by Alvas Rawuther, 20 August 2012 - 06:16 AM.
SYSTEM SPECS.
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz | 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz RAM | 488 GB WD SATA HDD | 1024MB ATI Radeon HD 4350 | No real-time antivirus | MBAM on-demand | Windows 7's Built-in Firewall |
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 | Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz | 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz RAM | 488 GB WD SATA HDD | 1024MB ATI Radeon HD 4350 | No real-time antivirus | MBAM on-demand | Windows 7's Built-in Firewall |
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