Installing Ubuntu as triple boot

Hi guys!

I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptop that came with Vista pre-installed.

I installed XP side by side in a dual-boot config with the existing Vista.

So my boot configurations is not like the normal case. (where earlier versions of windows are installed first)

Now i need to install Ubuntu on the third partition i created.

How do i go about the installation given my peculiar boot configuration?

Thanks

 

i don't know if you can do this before you install ubuntu/grub but. you'll have to copy some xp files over to vista .. i did it too long ago i forgot what. thers 1 or 2 files needed to be copied from xp to vista (if xp boots up instead of vista) and then add entrys into grub menu.lst for vista.

but you only needa do this once and if you resintall a diff linux distro the setting sstick.

but it's definitely possible and not TOO hard.

EDIT: I FOUND IT

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=263146&page=

 

Thanks i'll have check it out and get back to you if i get into problems.

Thanks once again.

 

here's my entries for xp and vista on /boot/grub/menu.lst
hope it helps.
change the hd0,# to whatever parition ur os is on. starting from 0

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda3
title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

 

So you want to use the Vista bootloader?
You can, in the last page of the Ubuntu Install(under 'Advanced') choose where to install the boot loader, simply choose the appropriate partition.
Then use something like EasyBCD you can add Ubuntu to your Vista bootloader

 

Thanks so much for your response.

Actually, i'm using the VistaBoot PRO method of partitioning, where a pre-installed Vista OS partition was 'shrunk' then, installing XP on the new partition. But i made about a 10GB extra partiotion for Ubuntu, from the XP install disk, at the time of installation of XP.

Note that the Vista boot loader is used.

1- So how can i install Ubuntu on the 3rd partiotion & be able to boot into Windows.

2- Pls can you explain more on the boot loader for me?

Thanks once more

 

No problem.
On the last step of pre-installation in Ubuntu, under advanced, it gives you a few options, namely where to install the boot loader, if Vista is on the first partition, XP on the second, and Ubuntu on the third, Ubuntu should install the boot loader to sda3.
I'm not sure about Vista Boot Pro, but I know EasyBCD can add a Ubuntu Entry to Vista's boot loader, which should be on the Master boot Record(MDR, hd0,0).