Help figuring out complicated OS setup

[007agentHP]

Hello, so i want to have Mac OSX, WIndows 10, and Ubuntu 17.04 for work

 

but the issue is how i want to organize them 

 

i have an ADATA 240 GB SSD

i want to put all 3 operating systems on it, in their own ~65 GB partitions

 

i also have a 2 TB hard drive which i wish to divy up into 3 partitions so each OS can have it's own extra space

 

i have it fairly hashed out on how to install all 3 operating systems, but how do i cut up the 2 TB hard drive so that  a partition can only be seen by it's respective OS?

 

or am i going insane and should just simply get an Intel Optane drive, a 4 TB hard drive, and just triple boot that?

[AdamBGames]

4 minutes ago, 007agentHP said:

Hello, so i want to have Mac OSX, WIndows 10, and Ubuntu 17.04 for work

 

but the issue is how i want to organize them 

 

i have an ADATA 240 GB SSD

i want to put all 3 operating systems on it, in their own ~65 GB partitions

 

i also have a 2 TB hard drive which i wish to divy up into 3 partitions so each OS can have it's own extra space

 

i have it fairly hashed out on how to install all 3 operating systems, but how do i cut up the 2 TB hard drive so that  a partition can only be seen by it's respective OS?

 

or am i going insane and should just simply get an Intel Optane drive, a 4 TB hard drive, and just triple boot that?

 

its not possible, each has its own partition table depending on the OS it was made on so its not actually possible to do

[AdamBGames]

Just now, AdamBGames said:

its not possible, each has its own partition table depending on the OS it was made on so its not actually possible to do

I had a similar problem with my laptop (was dual booting ubuntu and windows) and all the internet would tell me was, "get an external drive"

 

7 minutes ago, 007agentHP said:

Hello, so i want to have Mac OSX, WIndows 10, and Ubuntu 17.04 for work

 

but the issue is how i want to organize them 

 

i have an ADATA 240 GB SSD

i want to put all 3 operating systems on it, in their own ~65 GB partitions

 

i also have a 2 TB hard drive which i wish to divy up into 3 partitions so each OS can have it's own extra space

 

i have it fairly hashed out on how to install all 3 operating systems, but how do i cut up the 2 TB hard drive so that  a partition can only be seen by it's respective OS?

 

or am i going insane and should just simply get an Intel Optane drive, a 4 TB hard drive, and just triple boot that?

 

 

[007agentHP]

8 minutes ago, AdamBGames said:

I had a similar problem with my laptop (was dual booting ubuntu and windows) and all the internet would tell me was, "get an external drive"

 

 

i've dual booted windows and ubuntu in the past just fine. its a matter of installing windows then installing ubuntu (which handles the rest).

windows 7 and ubunt 12.04

 

for all 3, i have a well hashed out plan

install mac osx, partition the drives 3 ways

install windows, then ubuntu

then through grub fix the windows bootloader i just broke, and then set the proper boot flags on the OSX partition

they should all come up in grub

 

ive been through worse, like reinstalling a windows OS in grub 

[NumLock21]

Optane only works on the new Intel 200 series chipset. As for cpu requirements can't remember if you need a kabylake or it still works with Skylake.

 

So you want to make that 2TB as "3 physical drives"?

Why not just partition the part you want for the OS you're trying to install and leave the rest unallocated for the next OS.

[2FA]

I know someone active on the forum has triple booted (was it @NCIX Lampy?)

[AdamBGames]

3 minutes ago, 007agentHP said:

i've dual booted windows and ubuntu in the past just fine. its a matter of installing windows then installing ubuntu (which handles the rest).

windows 7 and ubunt 12.04

 

for all 3, i have a well hashed out plan

install mac osx, partition the drives 3 ways

install windows, then ubuntu

then through grub fix the windows bootloader i just broke, and then set the proper boot flags on the OSX partition

they should all come up in grub

 

ive been through worse, like reinstalling a windows OS in grub 

 

oh I know how to do it. I still have the dual boot. Im saying that I wanted to partition a second drive like you said but It wont work

[007agentHP]

3 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Optane only works on the new Intel 200 series chipset. As for cpu requirements can't remember if you need a kabylake or it still works with Skylake.

 

So you want to make that 2TB as "3 physical drives"?

Why not just partition the part you want for the OS you're trying to install and leave the rest unallocated for the next OS.

oh darn. 200 series only

 

my plan was to install them all on an SSD for the faster boot times, and then partition a second drive so they all have more room

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, 007agentHP said:

oh darn. 200 series only

 

my plan was to install them all on an SSD for the faster boot times, and then partition a second drive so they all have more room

Yes, Optane only works on the new 200 series chipsets, even the 100 series used for Skylake isn't supported.

Optane boost HDD not SSD. At the price of a 32GB Optane, you can get a 120GB SSD.

[paddy-stone]

You can put as many partitions as you like pretty much if using GPT on the drive, but getting it so that ONLY the OS can see it I don't know about that.... but is it needed? as long as the OS you';re using at the time can see the partitions it needs, then does it matter that it might also be able to see the windows partition when using linux? or OSX?

 

You could always have one of them as the main OS, ubuntu for example, and have the other 2 OS as VMs, then you don't need to assign them partition space on the SSD, and can have the virtual disk on the HDD. Not sure how that would work for OSX, or if it can at all as I haven't used it in a long long time (1995-ish). Personally I would forgo a triple boot and stick with a main OS and virtualize the others if it's possible with OSX, unless you need access to the hardware of course, in which case you'd most likely have to triple boot unless using a level 1 hypervisor for example. Which I haven't tried myself yet, it's on the list of stuff to try

 

[BestPCBuilder2017]

3 hours ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I know someone active on the forum has triple booted (was it @NCIX Lampy?)

I'll post in a sec, thanks for the mention.

[BestPCBuilder2017]

4 hours ago, 007agentHP said:

Hello, so i want to have Mac OSX, WIndows 10, and Ubuntu 17.04 for work

 

but the issue is how i want to organize them 

 

i have an ADATA 240 GB SSD

i want to put all 3 operating systems on it, in their own ~65 GB partitions

 

i also have a 2 TB hard drive which i wish to divy up into 3 partitions so each OS can have it's own extra space

 

i have it fairly hashed out on how to install all 3 operating systems, but how do i cut up the 2 TB hard drive so that  a partition can only be seen by it's respective OS?

 

or am i going insane and should just simply get an Intel Optane drive, a 4 TB hard drive, and just triple boot that?

So your SSD you want to triple boot all three OSes off of and then you want your HDD (mass storage) to be partitioned three times, one for each OS, right? I can make a step by step guide. 

[BestPCBuilder2017]

4 hours ago, AdamBGames said:

its not possible, each has its own partition table depending on the OS it was made on so its not actually possible to do

Would DEEPLY appreciate it if you would take your shit posting to the shit posting section. 

 

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[007agentHP]

Just now, NCIX Lampy said:

So your SSD you want to triple boot all three OSes off of and then you want your HDD (mass storage) to be partitioned three times, one for each OS, right? I can make a step by step guide. 

Thank You!
yeah, thats what i was hoping to do. take advantage of the SSD boot times and then a mass storage drive for games (windows),  programming (linux), and app development (mac OSx)

i was thinking of ~700 GB for windows, ~500 GB for Linux/mac 

thanks again for the help!

[BestPCBuilder2017]

3 hours ago, 007agentHP said:

Thank You!
yeah, thats what i was hoping to do. take advantage of the SSD boot times and then a mass storage drive for games (windows),  programming (linux), and app development (mac OSx)

i was thinking of ~700 GB for windows, ~500 GB for Linux/mac 

thanks again for the help!

Do you need help with both drives or do you already have the OS drive setup? 

[007agentHP]

Just now, NCIX Lampy said:

Do you need help with both drives or do you already have the OS drive setup? 

the OS drive is setup

i just need to know how to properly partition and format the mass storage drive

[BestPCBuilder2017]

3 hours ago, 007agentHP said:

the OS drive is setup

i just need to know how to properly partition and format the mass storage drive

Partition a Storage Device for Linux, Mac, and Windows

 

Requirements

Bootable USB Mac OS Installer

Bootable USB Linux OS Installer (This guide will be using Fedora)

Bootable Windows OS (This guide will be using 8.1)

A Storage device that can store Windows, Mac, and Linux

 

Setting the Dedicated Space Using OS X

1. Boot into the Mac OS X USB installer

2. From the top, select, "Utilities", then select "Disk Utility"

3. Select the storage device that you want to store Mac, Windows, and Linux files to

----Be sure the storage device is formatted as GUID and not Master Boot Record or it will not work!----

4. Select the "Partition" button from the Disk Utility window

5. Click the "+" button once in the bottom left. This will create two partitions. Make sure that the Mac partition will be the size of the Mac partition and the remaining partition that has not been created yet.

6. The most recently created partition should be set to "MS-DOS (FAT)" format. Title this partition accordingly, as this will be the name of the Linux or Windows partition of choice.

7. Now that one of the three partitions have been created, it's time to separate the second and the third.

8. Select the remaining partition which contains the space for both Mac and Windows or Linux storage. Windows or Linux will depend on your choice from earlier. If you you picked Linux earlier, then you will be choosing Windows. If you picked Windows earlier, then you will be choosing Linux. With the remaining partition being selected, select the "+" button one more time on the bottom left.

9. Three separate partitions should now be shown and available. Make sure that each partition will have its own title for each type of partition. (Each title coressponding to its partition. A title for Linux, a title for Windows, and a title for Mac. )

10. For now, make sure that the Windows and Linux partitions are both set to "MS-DOS (FAT)" format. Only the Mac partition should be set to Mac format, "OS X Extended (Journaled)".

----Note – If planning on using encryption for the Mac partition, select "OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)"----

 

Setting the Linux Partition From MS-DOS (FAT) to (LUKS + Ext4) or (Ext4)

Now that the Mac partition has been created successfully, it's time to move on to set the second and the third partitions. This segment will only be focussing on the Linux partition.

1. Boot into the Linux operating system

2. Swipe the mouse to the top left of the screen. On the left from the bar, select "Show All Applications"

3. Select "Utilities"

4. Select "Disks"

5. Select the drive containing the three partitions.

6. Select the Linux partition

7. Select the "-" button

8. Select the "Delete" button

9. Select the free space equal or close to the size of the Linux partition

10. Select the "+" button

11. Select "Compatible with Linux systems (Ext4)" or, if using encryption for the Linux partitoin, select "Encrypted, compatible with Linux systems (LUKS + Ext4)"

12. Name the partition

13. Select the "Create" button

 

Setting the Windows Partition From MS-DOS (FAT) to NTFS

Now that two of the three partitions have been created successfully, it's time to move onto the third and final partition. This segment will only focus on setting the Windows partition.

1. Boot into the Windows operating system

2. Open "Control Panel"

3. Go to "System and Security"

4. Scroll down to "Administrative Tools"

5. From the list of applications available, open "Computer Management"

6. On the left collumn, go to "Storage" > "Disk Management"

7. From the disks available, find the disk that you plan to store Mac, Windows, and Linux to, and then select the Windows partition

8. With the Windows partition selected, right click on it and select "Delete Volume"

9. Select "Yes"

10. Select the "Unallocated" space

11. With the "Unallocated" space selected, right click on it, and select "New Simple Volume"

12. Select "Next", "Next", "Next", give the volume a name and make sure that the file system is set to "NTFS"

[BestPCBuilder2017]

That should work. It's an earlier revision of mine, but it should still do the job. If you have any issues with it, let me know. 

 

I also recommend going with non encrypted first and then once you understand the whole process, feel free to play with the fires of encryption.