Tripelboot

linman321 · 03-12-2011, 07:01 AM

I have a desire to boot Tripel windows7 arch and Slackware but unsure how to partison my hard drive??

carltm · 03-12-2011, 07:07 AM

It depends on what you want to do.

Do you need more disk space for one OS?
Do you want a vfat partition which all OSes can write to?
Can arch and slackware share the same swap partition?
How many drives (for example C

do you want for Windows?
How many partitions (for example / or /home) do you want for arch?
How many partitions do you want for slackware?

Or a more basic question...is all this confusing and you just
want a simple plan that will work?

linman321 · 03-12-2011, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carltm

It depends on what you want to do.

Do you need more disk space for one OS?
Do you want a vfat partition which all OSes can write to?
Can arch and slackware share the same swap partition?
How many drives (for example C

do you want for Windows?
How many partitions (for example / or /home) do you want for arch?
How many partitions do you want for slackware?

Or a more basic question...is all this confusing and you just
want a simple plan that will work?

When all comes too the end a realy want a simpel plan that works

But my problem is that i cant have mor then 4 primary partisons.. and win7 use two of them.

carltm · 03-12-2011, 07:22 AM

In that case, let Windows have partitions 1 and 2. Then make
partition 3 an extended partition that contains all the remaining
disk space. Now you can create partitions starting from number 5.

As far as the hard drive is concerned, you have 3 partitions.
However you operating systems will be able to use the 3 real
partitions and the extra logical partitions.

linman321 · 03-12-2011, 07:56 AM

Thanks

i innstalld arch on 1 partision and slack on 1 and it works perfeckt

carltm · 03-14-2011, 08:20 PM

Cool. I'm glad to hear that.