Triple Boot - Without killing existing system

Hi
I have an Acer One with 1GB, 160GB Hard Disk & Linpus.

I've installed Ubuntu 8.10 as a dual boot and use Grub to select my OS at boot up.
This is my partition structure:



Can anyone advise the best way to install Win XP Pro without killing the 2 OS's installed and still allowing me to use Grub to select either Linpus, Ubuntu or Win XP.

Hope you can help.

Thanks

 

My suggestion would be to install XP as a virtual machine. You could start XP from linpus or Ubuntu without a reboot.

Make one partition for the virtual disk ( a single .vdi file) accessible from both Linpus and Ubuntu.

Lookup VirtualBox. It's pretty good.

I currently have it running on Linpus to run XP.

I do you find the boot time on 8.10? I tried it but was very slow on the 8G SSD. I have updated the drive to a fast 32G SSD. Wonder what kind of boot time compare to linpus.

 

Thanks for the suggestion.

I use Virtual Box in XP to test Ubuntu Server, so I know how it works.
Ideally I would prefer to have XP installed as a true oS, not running as a Virtual PC.

Ubuntu 8.10 with Sickboy's kernel boots up pretty fast, not as quick as Linpus but not to far behind.
I don't have the SSD version I have a 160GB HD.

Thanks

 

Anyone have any suggestion on my triple booting question ??

 

I've managed to do this (I did need some help with grub)

I deleted both swap partitions, and then resized both /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda5 to allow a new NTFS partition.

I then rebooted and installed XP Pro from CD into this new NTFS partition.
Once that rebooted I got the HAL.DLL error.
To get past this I just reinstalled XP (I didn't format this time, just overwrote the files) XP booted up and worked.

I changed both Linpus & Ubuntu to use the new swap partition and reactivated grub. Worked well.
Did my son's netbook last night and will probably being my other son's tonight !!