OpenSUSE Install :: Triple Boot With Win 7 And Ubuntu 10.10

Feb 7, 2011

I Currently have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on dual boot system, but I want to change that. I want Win 7, openSuse 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.10 on a triple Boot. I have a 500gb sata hdd. The Rough Plan was to 150gb for Win7, 150 for openSuse 11.3 (50gb for / and 100gb for /home) and same again for Ubuntu 10.10 and 50gb for Swap. I am using entire drive for 3 Operating Systems and Swap. I have read a few guides and they all say install win7 then opensuse then ubuntu, and thats fine but none say anything about partitioning. And one main problem is cant split into more than 4 different partitions.

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Jan 4, 2010

does anyone know that if i can boot from an external hard drive with "openSUSE" installed on it?

how about FireWire, will it work?

i'm trying to set up a triple boot for me newly bought iMac.

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2. Do I select "Root Partition in sda3"?
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2.ubuntu 9.04 with old kernal
3.recovery
4.......
5.windows.

And inside windows there is another boot screen for
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Ubuntu - Maverick - 73 GB
Ubuntu - Natty - testing version - 65 GB

I do not want to screw up my 'grub' as it's been trashed a couple of times recently and had to re-install everything, which went great with install setting up partitions. I am not sure where 'grub' is installed to. I did install Windows 7 first then let installer split hard drive in half to put Ubuntu on then while installing my second Ubuntu, I let installer split the Ubuntu partition in half, hence the 167 GB Windows and the 2 smaller partitions for Ubuntu.I was thinking to maybe let Debian install over my Maverick install. Would that work and not mess up my Grub and cause me to not be able to boot and have to fix the drama?

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Apr 6, 2010

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Looking on SUSE I notice that the 50gig partition formerly known as Ubuntu still exists I figure no problem add the partition back on to the boot-loader and I'm good to go. Added it and when I select to load it nothing happens it starts to then reverts back to the OS list. Does anyone A) Know how to resolve this or have any ideas. B) Think I can at least copy files off that 50 gig partition to an external hard drive.

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I am having problems with triple booting my system. The original Linux OS I started out with was Ubuntu, which I was able to triple boot in the desired configuration (Mac OSX, Unbuntu, and Windows XP) after several tries (the instructions I got weren't quite right). I am now trying to install openSUSE instead of Ubuntu. However, if I install openSUSE before Windows XP, Windows XP erases my installation. If I install it afterwards, it seems to erase Windows XP, as it becomes unbootable thereafter. Perhaps this is because I am following the instructions for installing Ubuntu (format partition 3 as Ext3, mount it as /, and install the grub boot loader inside that partition), without modifying much else. I can't seem to find any good instructions online to tell me what else to do.

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I've decided to triple boot on my system, but I want to make sure it's feasible. Here's my set-up: I've got two 500GB hard drives, and a good amount of power to handle the OS's. I want to set-up Ubuntu as my main OS on a single hard drive. Then, I want to put XP and 7 on the second hard drive, side-by-side. Obviously, I would then want a bootloader to display an option at system start to pick either one.

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Jan 3, 2010

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Jan 5, 2010

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Moblin does have a GRUB, but I'm presuming that its the legacy version, not GRUB 2. How would I get the Ubuntu GRUB back as the main bootloader if that were the case?

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For completeness here's the history that got me to this point:

Stage 1
/dev/sda - disk with XP OS, set to be first boot disk in BIOS
/dev/sdb - a small data disk to supplement sda

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Nov 1, 2010

I've looked everywhere for a satisfactory answer, to no avail. I wish to triple boot xp/98/ubuntu 10.10. Is this an appropriate HDD setup? (it looks like this in partition magic pro srever 8.05)

*:SYSTEM........ NTFS......... primary ..........(for xp)
C:WIN98......... fat32 .........primary,active (for win98 )
*:UBUNTU....... LinuxExt3 ...Primary ..........(for Maverick Meerkat)
.........* Extended
............. *:SWAPSPACE2.... Linux swap .....logical
. ...........D: DATA................. fat32............. logical (for all things backup)

There is nothing on any of the drives at this point. (I am submitting this on a crappy 233mhz win95 laptop)

Here's the information i've gathered so far... Install in the following order: 98, XP, Ubuntu XP's drive label MUST be "SYSTEM" (I think?) Installing multiple os's is easy (i've read) if you hide unused partitions during install (ie. if installing XP, hide C:WIN98 and *:UBUNTU partitions) but i can only do this with FAT formats, and if i do that, the dirve letter changes, which is a problem (i suppose i could manually hide/unhide, and set active the partition I want at every boot-up....(Damn))

And here's a couple more questions SHOULD I make everything fat32? do they have to be primary to boot? ('98 on an inactive partition won't load) Once they are all installed... where do i put grub? Do i put it in first? Also, I deleted my dell utility partition to do this, is that a problem? (LOL, I have NO idea what I'm doing...Fck)

Like i said, finding information about the partition setup (logical/primary) is damn near impossible. Even if it's just a "Ya that'll do for a setup"

I'm gonna keep experimenting, since there's no longer anything to lose on my HDD, and i'll report back any improvements I come across

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Feb 22, 2011

I wondered whether it is possible to add a PC-BSD system to my existing OS X 10.6.6 + UBUNTU (using rEFIt)

How to resize the partition with linux and installing PC-BSD 8.1 on my Mac?

First I installed OS X and updated it to 10.6.6

Then I created a BOOTCAMP-Partition using the bootcamp-utility

Then I installed rEFIt

Then I installed UBUNTU (and the dual-boot works very well)

Now I want to add a PC-BSD

May I change the partition-size of the UBUNTU-partition without destroying MBR oder rEFIt? If yes, will rEFIt recognize the newly installed PC-BSD?

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Aug 14, 2010

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/dev/hda1 > XP [primary patition][can boot and work]
/dev/hda2 > Ubuntu [primary patition][can boot and work]
/dev/hda5 > swap for ubuntu [secondary partition]

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I have been running dual boot Windows XP and Slackware for years but I recently changed things up a bit a "broke" something.

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After the install there were 5 options in the bootloader menu (at this point I am not even sure what bootloader it was using). Ubuntu, Ubuntu ("safe mode?"), memtest, more memtest, and Windows 7 (bootloader? it wasn't just called windows 7 but something like Windows 7 bootloader, I have only booted once and I am writing this from Ubuntu right now). I tried selecting Windows 7 at that point hoping that it would bring me to the Windows bootloader which would allow me to select from Windows 7 and Windows XP but the screen just went blank for a second or two and then sent me back to the same screen I was just at.

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At this point I am pretty lost. Most of my Linux work is done in Parallels now on a Macbook so I haven't had to mess with the bootloader in years and when I did it was all on Slackware which to me is set up quite a bit differently than Ubuntu. I would be pretty sick if I screwed up and took out 3 OS's with it.

How Grub will handle booting both Windows OS's when Windows appears to be doing it with one bootloader.

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