Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 July 2004 07:50 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:02:42 +0800
>
> "goodman" <goodman.gao@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have installed Suse 8.1 using the whole disk of my box. Now I want
> > to instal Suse 9.1 along side with the previouse install. Are there
> > any tool to move the disk partitions and make space for the new instal
> > of SUse 9.1 as a dual boot install, just as PQ magic does for windows
> > partitons?
>
> In addition to the partitioner in the SuSE installer, QTParted is a very
> good graphical partition tool. I had a need to reorganize my partitions
> a bit, booted the standalone Knoppix distro and ran qtparted.
>
> However, no matter what tool you use, there is some risk.

I used the RIP iso to shrink my NTFS partition and create partitions for the 
installation of SuSE9.1 onto a Dell Inspiron 1150.  Process went smoothly 
without a hitch.  Both OS's have worked fine for about 3 weeks now. But to be 
truthful, I rarely boot the xp,  to difficult to work with compared to 
SuSE9.1.

You can get the iso at 
sunsite.rediris.es/sites2/ibiblio.org/linux/system/recovery

The latest is RIP-10.2.iso.bin.  Simply download that, remove the .bin and 
burn the rest to a cd.  It will be bootable and has a whole bunch of programs 
useful to mess with your drives.  Be sure to get the Readme.txt and read it 
BEFORE you do anything else,  cause it will tell you about each program and 
how to use them.

The readme even has a howto to boot it from a USB flash drive among other 
options.

Regards,
Richard