Question In what order should I install Windows 10, Ubuntu, Kali Linux and Cent OS.

[ashay007]

I want to install Windows 10, Ubuntu, Kali Linux and Cent OS. I have a 240gb ssd and a 1tb HDD, I want Windows 10 to be on the ssd and all the other Linux distros on the HDD.
In what order should I install them?
Also I want to install them in UEFI mode.
Thanks.

 

[mitch074]

Windows 10 first. The others behave better, but Windows just can't deal with other OSes.
I personally install Windows alone on its own disk and then install the others on another disk - just to make sure that Windows won't screw them up completely on its next upgrade.

 

[ashay007]

Windows 10 first. The others behave better, but Windows just can't deal with other OSes.
I personally install Windows alone on its own disk and then install the others on another disk - just to make sure that Windows won't screw them up completely on its next upgrade.

What about the Linux distros..?
In what order should I install them?

 

[mitch074]

What about the Linux distros..?
In what order should I install them?

I don't think it has much importance, they do have a tendency to play well together. I would start with the one that use the oldest release of grub, and go from there to the most recent. Check the grub2 package version for each distribution.

 

[USAFRet]

Win 10
Ubuntu
CentOS
Kali should live on a bootable USB, or possibly in a VM. Rather than a full install on the HDD.

 

[ashay007]

Win 10
Ubuntu
CentOS
Kali should live on a bootable USB, or possibly in a VM. Rather than a full install on the HDD.

Earlier I had tried installation as follows:
1)Windows 10 on ssd
2)Ubuntu
3)Kali Linux
(Every thing worked fine)
4)Then I installed Cent os
(Now only Cent OS and Windows 10 boots and when I choose Ubuntu or Kali I get error.)
All Linux distros are installed on a single HDD.

 

[howtobeironic]

This guy had done a partition table system (kinda old but should work) and put all the links you'll need to do a thing like that. The page is a bit confusing, but do check the links.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1300461

 

[ashay007]

I successfully installed all four of them.
1) First I installed windows 10.
2)Then I installed Cent Os.
3)Then Kali Linux.
4)Then finally Ubuntu.
Here!

 

[mitch074]

It's good to know that CentOS' grub setup is borked. You may want to open a bug report with them, but I suspect that bug would be upstream (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) in which case, good luck having it solved.

 

[ashay007]

It's good to know that CentOS' grub setup is borked. You may want to open a bug report with them, but I suspect that bug would be upstream (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) in which case, good luck having it solved.

Borked? What does it mean?

 

[mitch074]

Borked? What does it mean?

broken and buggy - grub2 is supposed to allow proper management of all OSes on a PC.

 

[ashay007]

broken and buggy - grub2 is supposed to allow proper management of all OSes on a PC.

But everything is working fine now.
I can boot any os without any problem.

 

[Satan-IR]

Yes Cent OS grub does not always play well.