Even being more cautious, take out the XP disk for the linux install (just put the cables). That way you won't accidentally erase his data. The only downsode is that Suse won't install XP in the GRUB loader automatically. On Tuesday 08 April 2003 14:40, Tom Emerson wrote:
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On Tuesday 08 April 2003 12:21 pm, pete atkinson wrote:
On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 18:11, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
In esssence, Yast is insisting on shrinking his D: (XP) which, I suppose he is understandably reluctant to do so, and is not letting him install on the 'C:' drive.
I may be able to understand Yast suggesting this (not really actually, but hey:), but there's the option of creating partitions and mount positions in expert mode, right? How does Yast prevent this?
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
Thats the problem, he is not 'an expert'.. I see what you are saying tho'
I'll second that comment and point out that having XP on D: is EXTREMELY odd. (even worse is "nothing at all on C:") This raises red flags in that what is being reported may not be accurate. I would advise a day where you go to your bosses home and physically look at/poke around the computer yourself [you ARE knowledgeable about such pokings, right?]
Generally, IDE based systems want to boot from A: or C:; by definition, "A:" is the first floppy drive, and C: is the "first" IDE [or SCSI] drive. Later BIOS's have the option to boot from what is CALLED D:, E:, or F:; which corresponds to the primary drive on the secondary controller followed by the secondary drives on the primary & secondary controllers [PLEASE check that -- it could also be that the order is C1/D1; C1/D2; C2/D1; C2/D2 where C=controller and D=drive] It starts to get fun when you have tertiary controllers or SCSI controllers [with 7 or 15 drives...]
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