I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
If you feel confortable with GRUB or LILO booter, and everything goes OK with your install process (many because do not read manuals do not install fine SuSE or because are owners of problematic hardware). You may need a XP bootable cd and you must know how to fix mbr to boot XP without grub if everything goes wrong ( fixmbr and fixboot reinstall your Win mbr) The answer is Abso bloody lutely NO On Saturday 22 November 2003 21:37, Adeem Zafar wrote:
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Adeem Zafar wrote:
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Absolutely none -- provided you install XP first and then install Suse. I suggest that you allow around 6Gb for Suse as a "normal" install (ie, KDE, multimedia, etc but NOT the "everything but the kitchen-sink" installation where you will need quite a bit more space). Suse will take up some 3.5Gb of space as a "normal" installation so having as much spare space is prudent. Always install Suse/Linux *after* the end of the space used for Windows. What I would also suggest, and which I always do, is to partition and format ALL the HD space - including the 6Gb partition for Suse at the end - using Windows. Then, when installing Suse, delete that end (6Gb) partition and recreate it and format it using Suse. And you do this by not accepting the default formatting Suse recommends after checking out your system but selecting Custom partitioning and then the Expert option. If you have XP installed in a NTFS partition then Suse will be able to read the contents of that partition but you won't be able to write to it (not yet anyway)so if you are installing XP from scratch think about using Fat32 if you will have any files which you would want to fiddle with using Suse/Linux. (Oh, when installing Suse with XP already installed, let Suse use the default option of where to install the boot file which will be the MBR - unless you have some weird installation where XP is not installed on the first HD and you don't have a boot partition (the 'old' C drive) but installed on the second HD or something.) Cheers. -- Wagner's music is really not as bad as it sounds.
On 11/23/2003 11:37 AM, Adeem Zafar wrote:
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Yes and No. No, because it usually just installs 2 OS with the ability to boot into either WinXP or SuSE Linux. Yes, because after serious use of Linux you will probably delete WinXP. ;-) -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/23/2003 11:37 AM, Adeem Zafar wrote:
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Yes and No. No, because it usually just installs 2 OS with the ability to boot into either WinXP or SuSE Linux. Yes, because after serious use of Linux you will probably delete WinXP. ;-)
LOL Getting there, baby steps... //Andy
On Sunday 23 November 2003 4:47 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/23/2003 11:37 AM, Adeem Zafar wrote:
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Yes and No. No, because it usually just installs 2 OS with the ability to boot into either WinXP or SuSE Linux. Yes, because after serious use of Linux you will probably delete WinXP. ;-) --
Well, also because the aleged boot usitlity to let you boot into other oses, only applies to other MS oses.. so using the linux bootloader will allow you to boot into either as needed. My kid got rid of her Windows partition after less than a week ... It got another one of those virii that the anti vurus folks only get after the fact.. and the virus wouldn't allow her to stay online long enough to get the alleged fix/patch for a windows autherized site. That site wouldn't allow others, say , us , to download the patch for her ( no windows OSes were not able to get into the site... ) I guess Bill thought that would keep the newest patch free from virii .... it didn't and there was another variant out w/in a week. That was when the windows partition converted to a full linux drive, for her. That, and the kids loved teh Tux racer game enough to lose interest in whatever other game they were playing.
On this box I have legacy and this text only mail cohabiting with 8.2 Pro which has access to the net. Thus legacy is covered. If I need something for the winblows box I download it on this one and Flash Drive it over to winblows. The solution to winblows vulnerability problems is to keep it off the net or use a linux firewall. CWSIV On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:48:00 -0500 jfweber@bellsouth.net writes: On Sunday 23 November 2003 4:47 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 11/23/2003 11:37 AM, Adeem Zafar wrote:
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Yes and No. No, because it usually just installs 2 OS with the ability to boot into either WinXP or SuSE Linux. Yes, because after serious use of Linux you will probably delete WinXP. ;-) --
Well, also because the aleged boot usitlity to let you boot into other oses, only applies to other MS oses.. so using the linux bootloader will allow you to boot into either as needed. My kid got rid of her Windows partition after less than a week ... It got another one of those virii that the anti vurus folks only get after the fact.. and the virus wouldn't allow her to stay online long enough to get the alleged fix/patch for a windows autherized site. That site wouldn't allow others, say , us , to download the patch for her ( no windows OSes were not able to get into the site... ) I guess Bill thought that would keep the newest patch free from virii .... it didn't and there was another variant out w/in a week. That was when the windows partition converted to a full linux drive, for her. That, and the kids loved teh Tux racer game enough to lose interest in whatever other game they were playing. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:37:29 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
"Adeem Zafar"
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
Just to chime in with my $.02.
I recently installed SuSE 8.2 as a project in class where the in-class
computers were running Windows XP. I used my laptop to export the
install via NFS. Not one of my students had a problem with the install.
I also had them set up GRUB such that Windows XP was the default boot
(because only one Linux class used the classroom).
Note that I had used Partition Magic to initially squeeze down the
Windows XP partition.
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Jerry Feldman
Dual booting is fine with Grub but the problem becomes in reading and
writing the winblows partitons.
If you have knoppix 3.3 you can boot that cd and see how it automounts.
Really nice even on a pentium II in fact K3.3 runs better on the PII than
winblows98 on a PIII with twice the memory and a bigger processor.
Its a good test distro and best of all no committment to installation.
I am waiting myself for 9.1 so GNOME 2.4 will be fully worked out.
CWSIV
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:37:29 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) "Adeem Zafar"
I have Windows XP and was thinking of getting SuSE 9....does it cause problems to dual boot on one hard drive?
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Joe Morris (NTM)