Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

["Jerome R. Westrick" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 23:14, John N. Alegre wrote:
> OK ... If this where a single boot Linux box I would not hesitate to just 
> through SuSE on the machine but here is what I am facing.
> 
> I have a IBM think pad that is configured as a dual boot Linux / Windoze 
> system.  The only reason Windoze is on there is at times when I need it at 
> client sites, I don't use it myself.  Since Red Hat has dropped free iso 
> distribution, I have decided if I am going to pay for Linux I am going to use 
> SuSE which is IMHO a far superior product the Red Hat Enterprise.
> 
> Now back to the issues.
> 
> As i said the laptop is a dual boot Linux / Windoze system with GRUB as the 
> boot loader.  All works fine now and my inclination is to leave things as 
> they are.  However the Red Hat 9.0 that is on there is getting farther and 
> farther away from current.
> 
> My main concerns with laying SuSE 9.1 Pro over the Red Hat distribution that 
> is on there are two....
> 
> First overwriting of the MBR and losing GRUB and there by not being able to 
> boot Windoze, and second getting the XFree86 to come up.  Once I get there 
> configuring the rest of SuSE is no problem.  I did have had the problem of 
> the MBR overwrite happen on an old Red Hat 6.x install.  I don't remember how 
> I  fixed it but I remember it was hell
> 

The SuSE boot CD, also has an option boot from disk, with this, you can
boot windows or Linux with a broken GRUB/LILO....

Then (like you said), once the GUI is up, everything is easy...

Jerry

> Anyone have any experience here?? For completness the laptop is an IBM 600 
> series with a 12 gig HD and 328 MB RAM
> 
> All comments welcome
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