Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

It's fairly straightforward to install Windows and then install Linux.  But 
what is not so straightforward is to do Linux first.  I got into that 
situation because my Windows partition was clobbered but my Linux was still 
working perfectly.  I went through the Windows CD install, but afterwards I 
got an "invalid partitioning" message when Windows rebooted after the first 
phase of its install.

I've googled "windows xp install SLE site:lists.suse.com" but could not find 
anything useful.

To make matters worse, the Windows partition is a logical, not a primary.

Should I just give up and install everything from scratch, Linux as well as 
Windows?  Fortunately this system doesn't yet have any data that I need to 
preserve.

Paul