[SOLVED] setting up tripple boot on mini 9

just dual boot.... after 3 days of trying I had to abandon the Dell 8.04 as it does NOT install, rather formats and copies to the HDD. XP does not share well with another primary active partition. The standard dual boot install; XP first, and [non dell] Ubuntu with grub second worked flawlessly.

[old] running dell 8.04 but also as default vanilla 8.10 now I am adding xpsp2 only because I need quickbooks to drill down at meetings rather than the expanded P&L as a .pdf! there is always some question not covered if I just take reports.

I know this will botch the mbr but I have the supper grub disk ready.

I do wish intuit ported to linux!!!!!

I had forgotten what a cluster [fleeting expletive deleted] windows installation is! a true festival of 'em

It is in but no sound, no lan, no wireless. on an up note I have 30 days to register it.

6 hours; that really zucks one forgets how bad it is even with the driver disk it takes forever oh well it is almost done

done

a lot of work just to take quickbooks to the meeting

SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER when the updates were almost done I was out of room adjusting the partition size when full is risky NOW DOING IT OVER at least the second time goes easier

I dual boot XP and Hardy on my Mini 9. It was very time consuming to say the least to get XP up & running properly. Hardy on the other hand needed 1 set of updates before having everything working. =]

If its just bookkeeping software needed, you could always just run XP in a VM, that way you wouldn't need to reboot oralter your MBR. Just a thought.