Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2747 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 13:42, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 07:14 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > > Jake Conk wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have  openSUSE setup right now on my machine that has 2 mirrored
> > > > 80gb disks. I just got another disk 80gb disk but I would like to
> > > > install windows on it. My question is, is it possible to install
> > > > windows on that new disk without it taking off my grub? I know most
> > > > multiboot setups that include windows always say install windows first
> > > > then install linux so it can auto detect your windows partition and
> > > > setup grub accordingly but in my case I already have linux setup and
> > > > want to install windows while keeping suse's grub menu. Is this
> > > > possible and how?
> > >
> > > If you install Windows, it will GLEEFULLY overwrite your MBR,
> > > forcing you to repair your Linux install.
> >
> >   My apologies for nit-picking here.  When Windows(tm) writes the MBR,
> > it does not "break" the Linux install,
>
> What version did that change with?
>
> Every version I've seen, including the XP Government version
> attempts to destroy any non-MS O/S on target disk.

Why not disconnect the Linux disks from the controller, install Windows on the 
third disk, and then use either Grub or the Windows O/S selector after 
reconnecting things?  I don't know how the Windows thing works, but I do
know that it is supposed to be there.

--doug

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