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.
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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