marsaro wrote:

If you have a seperate partition there should be no issues, I have a dualboot Dell also with SuSE & win2k. If you use 7.3 I think they have a repartition thing in Yast now that can shrink the win2k if it was setup to use the entire disc.

Maybe somebody else can comment on that.

Are you sure shrinking the W2K-Patition can be done? If he has installed W2K on a NTFS partition *I* think this would not fit. Or is the partition tool able to resize NTFS? Rene -- Omnis enim res, quae quando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. [Aurelius Augustinus, 4. Jhd} (http://www.fsfeurope.org/order/announce.de.html) anfordern öffentl. GnuPG-Key: Mail an gnupgkey@rene-engelhard.de

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Or is the partition tool able to resize NTFS?

Not a Free one, that I know of, but PowerQuest's Partition Magic does the job quite nicely. As a matter of fact, I'd pick up a copy of PQ Drive Image while I was at it, make a Win2k image from the shrunken partition on the new one, burn it to a CD, then convert the new one to "unused" for the SuSE installer. Lengthy and a bit costly, but worth the time and money investment in the long run... ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com

Well how about another option: Use vmware and run win2k there. I followed the same install routine as below, and then launched vmware inside SuSE and booted the already installed win2k partition. Really nice! Almost as fast as a native win2k (as long as you can allocate enough memory). And you have both systems side by side which is really nice. (best of both worlds). Ron At 12:52 PM 11/13/2001, you wrote:

--- "Heaton, Simon" wrote:

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HI Folks,

I am wanting to install SuSE 7.2 on my Dell Inspiron laptop which already has a Win2000 install.

What I've done (20GB HD example):

Install w2k. When installing delete all the partitions. Create 6GB partition for w2k. Create an 8GB partition for w2k storage/data.

Leave the rest of the HD unassigned (6GB or so)!

Format the first 6GB partition NTFS and install w2k.

From inside w2k, format the 8GB data partition. In the w2k disk manager or whatever it's called, you should see the unassigned partition there at the end.

After all is well, slap in a lil' SuSE and do an install. On laptops and desktops, for several versions now, SuSE does a great job of detecting the unassigned partition and install Linux there.

LILO rewrites the MBR or whatever goes on at that point and when you boot the computer you get a selection screen with linux, nt, mem test, etc.

Smooth, plus a sexy Linux boot screen.

I like to clean install, so I have no experience with the resizer, though the above technique works well enough that I'd have faith in it.

===== Daniel Woodard

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