Coz dual boot is too main stream...

I’m just wondering. What is there on Kali that you can’t accomplish by just installing the package under Elementary?

I haven’t actually used it beyond the occasional peek at it, so just wondering :)

@anish Kali has Metasploit and most of the pen testing tools pre installed...

I'm actually thinking of quad booting

And before someone starts ranting why windows is there, it's for gaming on weekends...

Elementary for normal web surfing and personal projects.

Kali for pen-testing.

2nd laptop, which is company's, has Ubuntu for coding and development.

@RafD haha... All the best... I fucked up in my first try. Windows was not showing in grub... Then today I started again from scratch and luckily got everything right. Kind off right. Left 100gb space unallocated. So thinking to add it to windows as drive E.

I had similar setup on my machine! Windows wasn't recognising Ubuntu so I had to reinstall Ubuntu on one drive, remove it install windows on another and then update grub to add entry for windows!😉 Now I have Ubuntu as my main OS.

I used to quad boot between OS/2, Linux, Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000.

That was a beast of a machine for the time.

I've ever triple boot my laptop as well. but mine was Windows 10, elementary, and hackintosh

Huh usually people run Kali from a VM so it is harder to tie the system to a physical machine. But I have windows and elementary dual boot:) with a Kali vm on the elementary side

@Axis people running Kali on a VM do it also in order to revert snapshots after finishing a pen task. You don't want your hacking system leaking information or getting compromised from some shady things you try.
They also use their main system in a different VM for a similar reason. The primary os is just used for running vms, never accessing or doing anything else.

@solocoder that's what Qubes PS does

I always wondered how to do triple boot.
I searched and tried to learn 1 year back or so.
Can you just referred to me any website or video or something
Where you learn from

I've got triple boot with three linux distro's myself haha!

Is >dual booting not normal?..

REAL programmers quintuple boot and run MORE OSes in triply-nested VMs!
</sarcasm>

Also, kudos for webcam sticker! (go fuck yourself, @theNSA)

@theNSA Awhh everyone sees you way worse than you are, don't they?

@Thewebdev it's easy, if you don't repeat the mistakes.

Step 1: install windows. Coz windows fucks up the mbr and doesn't care if any os were pre installed.

Step 2: During windows installation make 2 primary partition for C and D drive. And extend rest of the available space to make 3 logical partition, 2 for Linux distros and 1 for swap.

Step 3: Boot into windows and check everything is working.

Step 4: Install ur first Linux. Prefer installing user friendly os first like Ubuntu or elementary or deepin. Not compulsory, but it will be easy for u. During installation, when it asks for partition, check manual and select 1 of ur logical partition, check mnt point as /. Choose that swap space too.

*When setting up partition don't set the bootable flag on that partition. It makes the computer ignore mbr and directly boot this directory. So if u select bootable flag, u can't boot into other os*

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Step 5: after installing it will update the grub entry. The os prober will detect windows, if it doesn't, don't let it update grub. If it doesn't, boot via USB and manually update grub by running
``sudo update-grub``

Step 6: U have installed 2 os now. Boot into both and check everything is working.

Step 7: Now let's install 3rd os. Boot from USB, choose manually select partition and select that 2nd logical partition u created. Mount it on /. Use same swap partition.

Step 8: After installation, it will detect windows and ur first Linux distro. There is a bug, windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 are detected as Vista. Don't worry. Os-prober has an old if-else code, which shows Vista for windows > 7.

*when it asks u if it can update grub, check if both of ur os are in the list. If it isn't don't update grub. Go to step 99. Else go to step 9.*

Step 9: u have successfully installed 3 os. Remove ur USB and boot into all 3 os to check everything is working fine.

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Step 99: if ur Os-prober didn't detect ur first 2 os, then choose to not update grub during ur installation of 2nd Linux distro. Complete the installation. Then boot into 1st Linux distro and run update grub.
``sudo update-grub``

Feel free to post ur doubt or question by tagging me.

@Axis @solocoder running kali from vm is difficult. U don't get access to network card. The internet is in bridged mode, so eventually flows out via ur base os.

If u want to connect to local network, again it's pain to setup properly.

U don't get full cpu resources as there are 2 os running and it's shared.

Booting live or from disk is good as it gives u full control. And with persistent storage option in live, it's awesome if u want to keep files across boots.

That moment when a Linux distro doesn't recognize the Windows 10 installation on your RAID and you can't add it to GRUB... Dun Dun Duuuuun!

@abhi-inc Thank you so much. Really Appriarate . I'm having fun with parrot os. Just checking stuff. Otherwise everything can be done by any Linux distro as you probably know. I have Linux mint kde 18.2. I used elementary for year it was great. But kde guys doing great job. So I'm gonna stick with it for while.

@Thewebdev had parrot for a while. It is very difficult to use. No search, have to go in menu and find everything manually. And finding packages are also difficult. Wasted 3 hrs finding way to add Ubuntu repository in apt.