Installing more than 2 operating systems on a computer

[FeelsLikeANood]

Okay, So a friend of mine had an idea. I doubt It's even possible so I can here to ask.

She wants to take a Laptop and Install Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX on it all at once. Ignoring The issues of dealing with Hardware compatibility, is is even possible to do this?

[oldfred]

Unless it is a Mac we cannot help. As Apple owns OSX.

http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct
http://ubuntuforums.org/misc.php?do=showrules


. We do not support circumventing TOS, EULA, etc here.

But many have multiple installs of various Linux and some even have several Windows.

[FeelsLikeANood]

Her plan is to buy a Mac, then install windows and Linux alongside it.
I know it's possible to install Linux and windows side by side so long as windows is installed first but to do it with Mac too?

[Bucky Ball]

Perhaps you should try some research:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=triple+boot+osx+windows+ubuntu

[grahammechanical]

Microsoft owns Windows OS. And I do not think that the users wants to install an End of Life version of Ubuntu (10.04) and we have community documentation covering some of this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DualBoot/MacOSX

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation

The order might be

resident OS = OSX. Second installed OS = Windows. Third installed OS = Ubuntu.

But do plenty of research.

Regards.

[Buntu Bunny]

Would Windows even allow itself to be installed as the secondary OS? Doesn't it automatically take the primary position and overwrite previous boot loaders?

[oldfred]

The entire Apple sub-forum has a lot of threads on this topic.

You have to buy a full license for Windows and Macs have several tools to implement multiple booting. Not sure it works with Windows 8 in UEFI as always before it used a hybrid way to have both gpt and MBR partitioning. Macs use an older UEFI, so the new UEFI systems do not easily work, so they install Windows in MBR.