Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

["John N. Alegre" <listhub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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