Re: How to multiboot?
There are several things to consider beefore you start your multi-boot installations.
Your drive is limited to 4 primary partitions. You will need to add an "extended" partition. This is a type of primary partition that you can install, in theory, and infinite number of "logical partitions". Plan this on paper before you start.
I would make all your partitions before starting installation using gparted from your 9.10 Live CD.
Fedora and Suse will install nicely with MS but will try to take over any Linux partitions. Make sure you check every partition in their installers to make sure only the partition(s) you want them installed on are marked for use and the others marked as "do not use".
Grub on your last (Ubuntu) installation should pick up your other OS'. There may be way too many generated entries however. You will probably need a custom menu for this to really work. This is not hard to set up and requires little or no upkeep when finished.
See the link in my sig for a basic over view of Grub. The second link that I give in that post is the very best in depth study of Grub you will find.
You need to know this stuff if you are going to multi boot.
It is a lot of FUN. I am on a drive, right now with 12 installed and working OS' all booted from grub1.98 (from 10.04-testing).
Dell 480 XPS 3G ram Quad Core 2.40GHz, Radeon HD 2400 PRO, Audigy1, 3x320G HDD, 320G External, Debian Testing for use, Debian Squeeze for secure use, Debian Sid for FUN
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