Windows 7: Please Help Create Multiboot: Windows 7, OpenSUSE & KolibriOS

Hello everyone,

I'm not entirely sure where to post this, so if I'm in the wrong section please tell me. I'm tasked with creating a triple boot setup using the OSs mentioned in the title. All operating systems must be installed on the same drive with a fourth partition to be accessible by all 3 (for sharing of files). The triple boot MUST be done using the Windows 7 boot manager, so EasyBCD and other managers are out of the question. I'm in desperate need of help as I've never even heard of the latter 2 operating systems and need it done by Tuesday if possible. This is very important, so any help what-so-ever would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Not a lover of mixing Windows & Lunux.

Take a look here:
Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu
Dual Boot - Windows 7 and Linux
Linux - Install on Windows 7 Virtual Machine using VirtualBox

First install windows, then you install kolibriOS then OpenSuse. It will configure the boot loader GRUB in the installation of OpenSuSe.

edit: you can use the partitioning program in opensuse to create the fourth partition.
I don't know what sort of partition you need to create.

Thanks for help guys. I actually need to use Windows 7's boot loader, not OpenSuSe. Not sure what you mean by the type of partition. Just a basic partition is needed, so if I save a file on Windows 7 to it for example, both OpenSuSe and KolibriOS can access the partition and view the file.

Just curious. Why would someone want all those other operating system when they have Windows Enterprise?

It's actually the first part of a major project. We were asked to triple boot these 3 operating systems, without ever being shown how to multi-boot in the first place. So I'm left to fend for myself.

I think using the windows bootloader will not work.
I mean with partition type ext4, ext3, ntfs, fat32 etc.
I knew there was a way to dual boot without grub and just press some F-keys when you startup but I don't remember how it worked.

As far as I know you will need grub, I don't think that task is possible using only the windows 7 boot manager.

But maybe I'm wrong since I don't know so much about windows bootmanager. http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/06/11...and-windows-7/

Usually you can access windows files from linux without any problem. Make sure you have ntfs-3g and you mount the partition.