The PC used here has exactly the same setup. It is a Medion 2660+. Our solution was as follows : 1) Using Ranish, deleted all the partitions. 2) Using Ranish, created two partitions of 40 GB each. These sizes can be amended as necessary. 3) Formatted one as FAT32 and hid the second one so that it is not visible. 4) Using the recovery disks, restored Win XP to its previous state. 5) Unhid the second partition and installed Linux here. Before trying this, make sure that the recovery cds are available and work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frits Wüthrich" <frits@wuthrich.cc> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:27 PM Subject: [SLE] installing SuSE8.1 on top of WinXP Currently I am running SuSEprof8.1 on a machine, which also has WindowsME installed. That works fine, and installing it was easy. Now I have a new PC, which has WindowsXP preinstalled. I want to ad another drive, and then install SuSE8.1prof on that machine as well. I have read on the SuSE web page that if you run XP with FAT32, there is no problem. However, the new machine has a 60GB drive, which is configured like this: C:\ (called BOOT) a NTFS file system of 28GB D:\ (called BACKUP), a NTFS file system of 25.5GB E:\ (called RECOVER), a FAT32 system with 2.4GB. I want to ad the drive from my old PC, a drive I bought very recent, 120GB in total, 80GB on FAT32 and 40GB on ReiserFS. Now, how do I install SuSE8.1? GRUB will be installed, but can the installation take care of the correct settings, as it doesn't seem to be able to re partition NTFS particions? I would be happy to have SuSE8.1 installed on the ReiserFS partition on the second drive. My other question is about the physical installation of that second drive. It is now as the slave of the primary IDE channel. My new PC has the 60GB as the master on the primary IDE, and the DVD as the slave on the primaryn IDE, the CD-R as the master of the second IDE, so I could ad this drive as the slave of the second IDE. However the first IDE drive is 100ATA, and the DVD drive 33ATA. I thought that they would default to whatever the slowest is. Is this correct, and am I losing speed on the first IDE already? This would be the same on the second when I ad the second drive there as well. Or is this not an issue? Thanks for your help, -- Frits Wüthrich Linux newbie -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com