Help with multiple logical partitions and installing multiple distros

Hello, new to the forms. Ive been using linux for a while and know my way around a live cd and how to make them and everything. But I just recently reformated my laptop and want to do it really well this time. My hard drive is 640 gigs or so, I made a 500 gig extended partition, a 50 gig boot partition with ntfs, and the rest I made linux swap space (yes I know thats alot but I had nothing else to do with it.). I went through the extended partition and divided it up into 5, 100 gig partitions all formated ext4. I am looking to install a good open source bootloader that can sense multiple installations automatically, which I am using plop bootloader right now (If you have a better suggestion then please for the love of all things tell me), and I am going to put a different linux distribution on each of those 5 logical partitions. The problem is on each live disk, I keep having trouble with the partition selection. Its really confusing so I cant give specifics, but mostly its like im not being allowed to select the logical drives for the installation. I was wondering if there was maybe a boot disk utility for installing linux distros, like you boot it up and it is more geared toward the installation process instead of using the built in installer. If theres not then thats fine, but what I really need help with is putting those distributions on the different logical partitions. I am trying to put zorrin on the first one, opensuse on the second one, kali on the third one and then leave the other two alone for now. Is this possible?

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