On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:08:45 James Knott wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
Hi,
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which is running Windows Vista Home Premium. The machine has a single drive, 250Gb. I would like to install openSUSE 11.2 alongside the Windows OS, so that I can dual boot, but I would like to hear of other people who have already done this without any mishaps. Or maybe I want to hear from those who did have mishaps, and how they overcame them.
I have done the process of installing linux after Windows before, and YaST looked after me all the way, but about six months ago I tried to impress a friend, and ended up with an unbootable machine - the BIOS reported 'no operating system found'. I know that both operating systems were installed in their respective partitions, and the problem was something to do with grub writing into the MBR, which upset Windows Vista :(
I have googled to a few forums, where I have found howtos, and I have read the HowTo on the openSUSE site which describes installing openSUSE alongside Windows, but onto separate hard drives.
Any pointers would be welcome. Meanwhile, I'm defragmenting Windows, in preparation for resizing its partition. Y'see, I'm committed ;)
When I got my ThinkPad a few years ago, I repartioned the drive so I could have both Linux and XP on it. I also created a FAT32 partition, which I moved the "My Documents" folder to. This allows me to read & write documents from either OS.
...which was necessary then but isn't so necessary now with nfts-3g having pretty much full read/write support for ntfs partitions. I have dual-boot setups on 2 laptops and on both I can mount and access the ntfs windows partitions as easily as native ext3 partitions. Once upon a time, if you wrote to the nfts partition under Linux and then booted Windows, chkdsk would run at boot time and insist on checking the "unclean" disk. I haven't seen that happen since moving to ntfs-3g. Using the Ext3-IFS for Windows I can also access my ext3 partitions natively from within WinXP on both machines too. Cheers, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org