r1shot Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 This Guide is also good for other Desktop/Laptop PC. Quad Booting Made Simple ( How I did it ) XP pro, Vista,Ubuntu,Kaly 10.5.2 Reasons for Quad Boot: 1) Need all Major OSes for my travel without need for two Laptop. 2) Half the world still rely on MS and Linux 3) HDD boot is better than Emul. Better on PC ( ouch ) Items needed : 1) Installation CD/DVD for XP, Vista, Kaly (10.5.2) and Ubuntu 2) gparted for partition. 3) EasyBCD 4) Vista recovery CD How to: 1) Partitioning the most Important! Boot from gparted CD Make three partitions all Fat32 the first 2 partitions as PRIMARY the last one as EXTENDED Divide the extended ( the last one ) to 3 more. One Fat32 ( for you Kaly) and two more for Ubuntu ( one swap and one ext2 ) Size of each partition is up to you. Quit gparted. 2) OS installation : a) First install Vista ( must be the first) Choose Partition 2 for vista to save you the NTLDR grief with XP! After formating the Partition for vista make sure you make that Partition active. Finish Vista installation. Boot in to Vista and Install EasyBCD. Install Kaly to the Fat32 partition of the EXTENDED partition. boot in to kaly to test it out. c)Install Ubuntu to the 2 other Partitions in the EXTENDED partition. 3) Boot into Vista. If cannot use Vista Recovery Launch Easy BCD and Fix boot order. Create an entity for XP Make sure you can boot into all 3 OSes installed so far. 4) Now install XP on FIRST PARTITION 5) When done reboot into vista. Redo EasyBCD (correct MBR) Enjoy your Quad Boot. If you have problem with XP look for the boot.ini in the Vista root and adjust appropriately. I am leaving out the nuances of each individual OS installation due to the fact that it they have been exhaustedly posted. Please Google. In fact one can install all these OSes via USB flash. Save you a lot of time for trial and error. EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 gparted http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php Vista Recovery CD http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vist...-disc-download/ (use the 32bit version) Addendum: For those interested in installing OSes from usb flash here are the links http://devblurbs.blogspot.com/2008/04/inst...-usb-flash.html http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installin...-usb-thumb.html http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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