Hello.

[monoteddeh]

Hello, I'm trying to quad-boot Vista, XP, Linux and Ubuntu. First of all, is this possible? I have a 1 TB hard drive, with Vista Home Premium installed and I'm about to do a clean reinstall of it. Second of all, how? I have no idea how to split a hard drive into partitions, and I'm pretty clueless when it comes to this subject. Thats pretty much all the knowledge I have of this.
Thanks in advance

 

[MetalOverlord76]

Welcome.
When you pop in an OS disk if you already have another one on your computer, it should prompt you to partition your hard drive. When I had Windows 7, I inserted an Ubuntu disk and I was then shown a bar map, where I could drag how much I wanted for Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
I'm not entirely sure how many OS's you can do on one hard drive, though.

 

[monoteddeh]

And its as simple as that? There are no compatibility issues, software to download, or anything like that? Just insert the OS disks?

 

[MetalOverlord76]

You should be fine, though it would depend on weather you have a 32 or 64 bit OS and how much ram and Hard Drive space is required.

 

[monoteddeh]

I have a 1 tb hard drive and 4GB of ram... not sure what bit OS though. pretty sure its 64 bit.

 

[David Lindon]

Welcome to CF!

 

[monoteddeh]

Does the Ubuntu download have the partitioner, or is it just in the CD?

 

[Thelis]

Does the Ubuntu download have the partitioner, or is it just in the CD?

The GRUB partitioner (that's Linux's proprietary disk-manager) is contained on the installation CD for Ubuntu.

 

[J03]

The GRUB partitioner (that's Linux's proprietary disk-manager) is contained on the installation CD for Ubuntu.

It's not proprietary, is it?

 

[Thelis]

It's not proprietary, is it?

Well Linux has developed GRUB and does use it in their installations, but I guess that they don't technically own GRUB as it is all freeware.