Tripple Booting;

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I'm planning on Tripple booting;

XP,
Ubuntu,
Backtrack

So you're thinking Ubuntu and backtrack are both linux, why don't you just get the backtrack programs and install them on linux.
Because i can't be bothered messing about with that.
And i was Ubuntu seperate to experiment.
And Backtrack for 'pen testing'

Anyway, tripple booting.. i want it so i can be on Backtrack and still get files from ubuntu, or Windows to Backtrack.

Is this possible, so in the 'my computer' i want 3 harddrive to show up [Partitions]
No matter what OS im in so i can always access all three.

If you get me,

Thanks.
 
I don't know specifically; I just know that FAT32 has much more compatibility, and there's definitely a chance that using Linux-specific file format results in Windows sometimes deleting the Linux partition (or vice-versa with NTFS), I can't remember which way round. But I read something about that a while back.
 
Fat32 is a bad idea.

ext2 for the Linux systems. Then use the ntfs-3g driver to read/write to ntfs.
NTFS for Windows. Then use the ext2 IFS program to access the Linux stuff.
 
Probably easiest to do it when installing the first OS. I've never installed Linux though so don't know what disk management options it has when installing. Also, you should check if there's an order this works best in: even for dual-booting, the order you install in can make things a whole lot easier (for example, dual booting XP with Vista after installing Vista causes no end of problems with the boot manager, because Vista's boot manager has to take precedent over XPs..)

I don't know which order you should do it in; you'll have to find someone who knows more about the practicalities of it than I do!
But you should figure out what size the partitions need to be.

Random snippet: I think the number of primary partitions (the ones you can boot off) on a HDD is limited to 4. You may want to have three primary partitions and one extended partition; if your fourth partition (i.e. for data?) is also primary, you won't be able to create a fifth partition if you wanted to split up your data, unless it's an extended partition.. I think that's how it works anyway.
 
Ok; Windows is a breeze, it just goes on sda1, NTFS
I've also got backtrack to install :D! so i can now dual boot XP and BT3 and i can do XP and Ubuntu.
Now lets try the 3.
I have used;
sda1; NTFS windows.
sda2; ex2; 72mb
sda3; swap; 6gig
sda4; reiserfs ;16 gig?


It's saying the max i can have is 4.
Where can i go now and get ubuntu on.

Edited; i've delted the swap - Do i need it?!

Heres my problem;

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I know have 3 black 'unallocated' spaces. What i need is for all of the black ones to go at the right end; next to the 6gb and make a 20ishgb size partition for ubuntu as i can only have 4 partitions.
 
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miniyazz said:
Random snippet: I think the number of primary partitions (the ones you can boot off) on a HDD is limited to 4. You may want to have three primary partitions and one extended partition; if your fourth partition (i.e. for data?) is also primary, you won't be able to create a fifth partition if you wanted to split up your data, unless it's an extended partition.. I think that's how it works anyway.
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Since you don't need to boot off four partitions, make the fourth extended - that can be further partioned with non-bootable partitions and can hold swap file/data etc, just not OS

Edit: I think an extended partion will let you have an extra 127 logical partitions (I'll restate, they're not bootable, but discrete partitions nonetheless)
 
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