Triple Boot!Windows XP,Ubuntu 8.04,openSUSE 11.0!

Received openSUSE 11.0 DVD from Sameep of GNU/Linux Users Group of Bombay(GLUG-Bom) on Saturday via courier.Plopped it in and 1st of all,checked the media for errors to prevent another Mandriva 2007 experience. Plopped the DVD in for installation wherein it stopped at Initializing Package Manager for an inordinate time ,for me,did a hard reset.Plopped the DVD in at half-time at Euro 2008 Finals on Sunday and ran through the installation in about 45 minutes,punctuated by moments of anxiety when the installer recognized my Ubuntu 8.04 /home partition and asked to verify whether it be mounted as openSUSE’s /home.I was terrified till I clicked Edit and saw that the Do Not Format check box was checked,and breathed a sigh of relief.Otherwise,the installer was smart to recognize Ubuntu’s / and an empty partition with ext3 filesystem to be used as it’s / which I had kept aside specifically to test out other OSs.It steered clear of my Ubuntu partitions except /home,which as outlined above was wisely ticked to be not formatted.
I opted out of installing any bootloader at the verification of settings step.Took some finding though,because I was toying with chainloading openSUSE via Ubuntu’s GRUB which resided on the MBR.But the confusing options wherein both Boot from MBR AND Boot from Root partition could be checked told me not to take any risk even if I end up not being able to boot openSUSE.
Went back and checked the Do not Format box for /home again,to be sure.Clicked install and watched the rest of the Germany v/s Spain match.This time the installer ran through the Configuring Package Manager as if it’s tail was on fire.
Once done,rebooted into Ubuntu and breathed another sigh of relief when I could login without any .dmrc and “Missing home directory” errors.Again verified all my stuff was there.Shutdown and went to sleep.
Booted Ubuntu in the mid-morning and toyed with Ubuntu’s menu.lst in an attempt to get a triple boot,mounted and ‘cd’d to the openSUSE / partition to find the address for the kernel and init.Was surprised to find the menu.lst for openSUSE in openSUSE /boot/grub even though I’d opted out of installing the bootloader.Copy Paste to Ubuntu’s menu.lst and reboot.Lo! and behold!,we have a successful triple boot!!