Triple Booting Question

[t0rek]

Yes I know, lot of t0rek's threads. I'm in vacations right now, so I have plenty of time...

Back on topic, I currently have three partitions, one is used by Vista and stuff, other i used by XP, and other for miscellaneous stuff. I have plenty space in the third one, so I'm planning to install Linux (Ubuntu or Slackware) to have some fun.

Now what steps should I take? The last time I used Slackware 9 it used LILO, dunno if if will overwrite Vista Boot loader and what will happen then. Same for GRUB if intsall Ubuntu. Any recommendations?

 

[smcd]

On slackware you can have it not write to the MBR, then use dd to extract the first 512 bytes of your partition and save to a file (on a floppy disk replace it as the boot sector, or save as a file) then you can either boot from the floppy or use boot.ini in windows to load the file (copy it to your hard drive) http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html for other linux editions or for more tutorials, googling "Boot.ini linux" without quotes can be helpful

 

[t0rek]

mmm... installed ubuntu, had fun with it for a few days but recently got rid off it? why? I had no problems with it, it was just for fun and to see beryl working