I didn’t have much time blogging for the past week. But since July 18, I am running Debian, Centos and Ubuntu on my desktop.

**1. Install CentOS 5. **

  1. Manually partition as follows:
    <br /> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br /> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux (boot)<br /> /dev/sda2 14 3837 30716280 83 Linux (/)<br /> /dev/sda3 3838 4090 2032222+ 82 Linux swap<br /> ``

  2. Put bootloader grub on mbr.

  3. Reboot.

5. Install Ubuntu

  1. Manually partition.
    <br /> /dev/sda4 4091 19457 123435427+ 5 Extended<br /> /dev/sda5 19446 19457 96390 83 Linux<br /> /dev/sda6 19204 19444 1935801 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br /> /dev/sda7 15556 19202 29294496 83 Linux<br />

  2. Install bootloader on /boot of /dev/sda4

  3. Reboot.
    **

  4. Install Debian 7**

  5. Manually partition as follows:
    <br /> /dev/sda8 4091 4102 96327 83 Linux<br /> /dev/sda9 4103 4343 1935801 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br /> /dev/sda10 4344 7990 29294496 83 Linux<br />

  6. Reboot.

Hurray! Key point here is to install the bootloader on mbr first then, installing successive loaders in /boot of other distros.