Installign Windows with multiple partitions

[Liskethegreat]

after repartitioning my hard drive i found this out
I have a MacBook and i am wanting to install OSX, Linux, Solaris and Windows
XP or Vista

Windows XP and Vista do not support any more than three live partitions per
HD, so is there any way to trick the windows installer into thinking there
are only three when i have four+ partitions

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Friday, January 16, 2009 9:06:01 AM, and on a
whim, Liskethegreat pounded out on the keyboard:

after repartitioning my hard drive i found this out
I have a MacBook and i am wanting to install OSX, Linux, Solaris and Windows
XP or Vista

Windows XP and Vista do not support any more than three live partitions per
HD, so is there any way to trick the windows installer into thinking there
are only three when i have four+ partitions

You can't have more than 4 primary partitions on a hard drive. So you
should be able to install your 4 OS's. I have 5 OS's on my workstation,
but I have 3 hard drives and use Boot Magic as the boot manager. I
prefer all my OS's (Windows at least) to have the OS drive as C:,
because I have all my programs installed on drive E: and all the OS's
(except Linux) use the same program drive, so I can keep my OS drives
small (7 gig or less).

There are workarounds. I believe you can run an install of Linux in a
Windows partition (installs in a separate folder), just as you could
have more than one Windows install in the same partition.

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Terry R.

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[Bob I]

You may have 4 Primary Partitions. One of those partitions may be an
EXTended partition which may then be divided into logical drives or
partitions.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

after repartitioning my hard drive i found this out
I have a MacBook and i am wanting to install OSX, Linux, Solaris and
Windows
XP or Vista

Windows XP and Vista do not support any more than three live partitions
per
HD, so is there any way to trick the windows installer into thinking there
are only three when i have four+ partitions

You can have up to four primary partitions on your primary master disk and a
much large number of logical drives. If need more than four operating
systems then you would have to install some of them on these logical drives
or on disks other than the primary master disk. The Windows boot manager is
very basic and won't let you boot from anything other than the active
primary partition on your primary master disk. Third-party boot managers are
far less fussy: They let you boot from anything on any partition on any
disk. XOSL is one of them. It's free.

 

[Malke]

after repartitioning my hard drive i found this out
I have a MacBook and i am wanting to install OSX, Linux, Solaris and
Windows XP or Vista

Windows XP and Vista do not support any more than three live partitions
per HD, so is there any way to trick the windows installer into thinking
there are only three when i have four+ partitions

The others have given you good advice. Another way to do this is with
virtual machines instead of partitions. With VMware Fusion or Parallels and
OS X as the host, you can create virtual machines running all those
operating systems.

I'm posting this reply from SUSE Linux running in a virtual machine in
VMware Fusion on OS X.

Malke