Want a HowTo for multibooting two or more Vista versions

Hi,
My OEM Vista installation disk allows me to install any of the 8 vista
versions (Business, Business N, Enterprise, Home Basic, Home Basic N, Home
Premium, Starter, and Ultimate) and use them on a 30-day trial basis when I
don't enter a product key. I've tried this with the Ultimate version and it
seems to work, but I have not tried the others.

I have a 320 GB hard drive available and would like to install all 8
versions as a multiboot setup, so I can more easily explore the differences
between them. I think allocating 30 GB per Vista partition and any leftover
space to a common logical partition available to all Vista versions should
work fairly well. I've done some research,
(http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/index.htmI and
http://www.multibooters.co.uk and others), and I think that I can use the
XOSL boot loader to boot Vista from primary partitions and logical
partitions, and I think that XOSL is capable of hiding all the other Vista
partitions from the one that is being booted, so that there will be no
crosstalk between the Vista versions. I'm hoping that each Vista partition
will be completely independent of the multiboot setup so that I can start
fresh in any version by restoring that one partition from a Ghost copy. My
research has found a number of very good web sites that discuss the problems
and possible work-arounds for the problems, but I have not found a 'HowTo
set it up' procedure.

I'm hoping someone will post a procedure to set up multi-booting for two or
more versions of Vista on a single hard drive or post a URL that has that
kind of procedure.

Thanks,

-Paul Randall


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