Jake: there should not be much of a problem with what you want to do. If you use partitionmagic (try to use the latest version) you might first want to check your NTFS partition for bad sectors. If pmagic finds any while it is in the midst of repartitioning it may stall in an unbootable state and have you groping for the repair disks (yep, you guessed it, that happened to me before). When starting the new install I would suggest to do the partitioning manually. Just pay attention that SuSE doesn't take XP's NTFS partition to install itself. I have no experience with boot-magic, but it probably works just as fine as grub or lilo. Good luck, Alex. On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Jake Pumphrey wrote:
My friend wants to try Linux so I said he could use my SUSE 8.2pro disks to try an install alongside his current XP pro. I gather from here and elsewhere that this is OK with SUSE. Perhaps he will like it and we can share the cost of SUSE9 (both a bit strapped for cash). I'm slightly nervous about "helping" him, as I'm not exactly an expert. Also my own install is SUSE only so I'm not sure about the dual-boot thing.
His filesystem is NTFS, no partitions.
I figure he should use partition magic to make a Linux partition before we start with SUSE. Is this correct?
And grub is the way to go re dual-booting presumably? I ask because he was going on about some windows boot-loader. Oh no I remember, it was boot-magic.
Jake
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