First thing I would do is get familiar with clonezilla and the gparted live
CD. That will give yo a means of recovery and a means of partition editing.
Once you have the partitions in place you can the do some reading on
grub/grub2. But in all honesty I have had great success with mint/ubuntu
and virtualbox and I like the debian package management. But most here are
likely to use vm's over triple booting so we would have good advice I'm
doubting that we have a walkthrough handy.

That being said you can probably search the internet and find what you are
looking for. And I would be willing to give you what advice I can.
On Feb 26, 2012 3:57 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

>
> Even after having done several Linux installations (some a lot more
> challenging than others), I am still a bit intimidated by it.
>
> Now, I'm about to undertake another and I hope the PLUG brain trust can
> provide some guidance, perhaps a concise installation checklist for this
> next attempt.  I have a box with win-xp installed on a 100-gig HD and I
> need the following:
>
> 1. How (most efficiently) to shrink and repartition for a dual boot with
> xp on perhaps 20 gig and the rest for installing two Linux distros.
>
> 2. I've installed PCLinuxOS several times and I (by far) prefer the older
> version with KDE 3.5, so I want to put it on one set of partitions using
> about 20-gig.
>
> 3. On the rest, I want to install whatever Redhat based distro might work
> best with Virtual Box (which I have never been able to get to work
> before).
> Some have recommended Cent OS (I've been told that there is a KDE 3.5
> version available).
>
> Any guidance to make this as concise, easy, and efficient as possible for
> a 20-year perpetual "newbie" user would be extremely appreciated. ;)
>
>
>
>
>
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