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I'm getting a replacement laptop tomorrow so I get to set it up from scratch. I want to triple-boot Win7, Win8 and Ubuntu (all 64-bit) and I can see several answers about this already, but I was wondering what the best install order is. I'm assuming it will be:
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Ubuntu 12.10
Has anyone tried this? Any reason I should change the order?
The other option would be to run Windows 8 from a VHD (see Scott Hanselman's blog post) but now it's been released I don't see much advantage to this.
Update: I tried this but ran into problems because MBR only supports a maximum of 4 primary partitions. If you're worried about this convert the drive to GPT before installing Windows 7.
2actually, mbr supports 4 primary partitions. You can format one as an extended, and nest as many logical partitions as needed inside it. – Journeyman Geek – 2012-10-22T01:23:21.033
Fair point, but unfortunately my laptop already has 4 primary partitions: Win7, Win8, HP_TOOLS (FAT32, 5GB) and System Reserved (100MB, NTFS). I don't think I can convert any of these. – parsley72 – 2012-10-22T01:31:34.173