Bootin 4 OS'es?

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:49 -0400, stan wrote:
> I'd like to set my laptop up to boot 4 different OS'es. Those would be
> Ubuntu, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and XP. Can anyone suggest a way to do this?

  Install XP First, or if it is installed, figure out how much room you
want to shrink it by, and remember that figure.  During the partitioning
(You can shrink your XP install here, after you've defragged XP using
Windows), set up your /Swap as a primary partition, then use the rest as
an extended partition and give some thought to whether you are going to
use one /home partition for the three remaining OS' or their
separate /home partitions, or whether you want even separate /home
partitions.  Also do some thinking about which one of the OS' will
handle the boot process.  My main system has 5 OS' on it, and managing
Grub has become an issue.  Those OS' which upgrade the Kernel and
initrd, but use symlinks make this easier, those that do not require
editing of /boot/grub/menu.lst to point to the correct kernel/initrd
images.