How easy is it to install, Vista,XP,Ubuntu,FreeBSD on 1 pc ?

Combat squirrel · 29 Oct 2007 at 12:43

As title ? Iv got Vista,XP,Ubuntu already on my laptop, boots fine, but I also need freeBSD for development reasons and uni work, can you Quad boot easy enough ? will freeBSD just add itsself to the grub menu ?

R4z0r · 29 Oct 2007 at 16:27

Shouldn't be that hard if you're careful, just install it in it's own partition and make sure FreeBSD doesn't overwrite the grub config. You'd then just need to edit your Grub config.

Wouldn't it be easier to use VmWare - That way you won't have to mess about rebooting all the time.

gumbald · 29 Oct 2007 at 20:27

Why do you need all those?

Rich43 · 30 Oct 2007 at 18:29

Its possible, either span it over many drives or make lots of partitions on one drive.. just be VERY CAREFUL!

mattgaunt · 31 Oct 2007 at 00:47

I installed xp, vista and ubuntu on one machine, i would suggest installing in this order - largely cos it worked for me

XP, vista, FreeBSD (Because i dont kno what boot loader it uses but GRUB will pick it up) then ubuntu - using the alternate CD since it seems to be a lot more stable installing the GRUB - i say this just because i know along time ago the liveCD had a bug in it where it sometimes had trouble installing the right info into GRUB

Matt

fumbles · 31 Oct 2007 at 08:16

Combat squirrel said:
will freeBSD just add itsself to the grub menu ?

No you will need to manually add it, unless you reinstall grub, which you do not need to do. Considering you already have three OS's, running it shouldn't be too hard for you.