Install Windows XP first, then go for Linux and Free BSD. Windows being installed first helps a lot. If you want this to work sooner than later, I'd say do this:


Install Windows XP


Then, install Free BSD. If you'd like you can use my tutorial on installing it, but leave room, and you won't be able to use my partition set up for Free BSD, because you need free space left over.

I'm going to recommend SUSE over Debian, as it's easier and still comes with more programs. Use SUSE and make partitions for it. You can easily get away with just a /Swap and / partition, so you may want that.

Then install RedHat and tell it to "Use remaining disk" Or whatever they call it that lets you use what's left of the disk for it.

4 OSs is a bit odd, the most I've ever done was 3. Which was Free BSD, Linux, and Windows.

Make the Swap about two times the size of your RAM, and make the rest basically however you want, but remember, you seem new, and should leave space for growth.


You could use this:

Windows XP partition size = 9.5 GB

Free BSD = 10 GB

RedHat = 10 GB

SUSE = 10 GB

/Swap = 500 MB

That should work.

Now read on how to set it all up.