Rick
Mon May 12 03:30:45 PDT 2008
Hi John,
XP/Vista/Linux
Only the Linux bootloader is capable of loading the other two. Window's
version cannot load Linux. Alternatively you can use a third party
bootloader that can handle any of them, then it won't matter which order you
install them in.
Alternately, you can use Virtual PC or a similar product under XP to install
and run Vista and Linux without having to repartition or worry about
bootloaders. You'll find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en
For installing Ubuntu in Virtual PC, you'll need to see this to correct
video and mouse issues:
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/05/06/installing-ubuntu-on-virtual-pc-for-windows-lovers.aspx
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"John" <replyingroup@notemail> wrote in message
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> I've been using WinXP Pro since it was first released and I'm very happy
> with it. However, I have a requirement to learn about Vista and Linux so I
> recently bought a 500GB hard drive and intend to partition it in the
> following way: three partitions, each 50GB in size, one for XP, one for
> Vista Ultimate and one for Linux (probably Ubuntu) with the remainder of
> the disc probably split into either two or three partitions for music,
> photos and user documents/data.
>
> My question is, in what order do I install the operating systems, so that
> when I power up the machine, I'm presented with the choice of which OS to
> boot into?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>