Thanks for such a quick reply :D I tried what you suggest but YaSt didn't give me an option. It was either deleting my XP partition or not installing SuSe 9.1 at all... That's why I want to do it in a different harddrive... I'm afraid of messing things up with XP again. I have used a lot of time recovering my system and files and I don't want to do it again :) Do you have any suggestions on what the problem could be? thanks. I really appreciate it.

There should be no reason to use the USB drive. SuSE 9.1 and XP should have no trouble sharing a 30 Gb drive. When installing SuSE, you will reach a step early in the installation process that suggests resizing your XP NTFS partition, then mounting that partition under SuSE as /windows/C. When booting your laptop, the SuSE bootloader (grub) will present you with a choice to either boot XP or XP. From XP, you won't be able to see your SuSE install, but from SuSE, you will have *read only* access to XP, as noted above.

Hope this helps....

-----Original Message----- From: avt022@student.uit.no [mailto:avt022@student.uit.no] Sent: Tue 10/5/2004 8:35 AM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Automatic Installation in Secondary Drive

Hi,

I originally tried to install SuSe 9.1 and Windows XP in the same hard drive (30 GB). It seemed too complicated for me to make the partitions since Win XP (NFTS) occupied the whole disk... So I gave it a shot with only SuSe 9.1 in that drive for a couple of days. But it gave me too much trouble with my hardware. I had gotten something working just before something else stopped functioning... I use too many hardware applications and I can't be too patient.

But I anyways want to give SuSe 9.1 a chance now that I have bought it.

Is it possible to install SuSe 9.1 in an external LaCie P2 hard drive that connects to my laptop through a USB cable? I'm thinking of buying such a hard drive, but only if Linux can be installed there. How does the computer boot into Linux then if I have Windows XP still in my main drive? Would this ruin something in Windows?

Which steps should I follow to guarantee that I can switch with no problems between the main and external drive from one OS to the other?

I need a step by step 'Howto' on this. Thanks.

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