Hi: I've recently purchased a new PC and have started install SUSE 8.0 on it as one of 3 OS's using Bootmagic as the loader. Anyway, I've partitioned my hard drive with Partition magic and then was trying to do an install with Suse from my DVD/CD. The initial menu comes up and then after I Select a type of install the screen goes black and then the system eventually hangs. That is, the screen stays black and after a few seconds where the cd and hard drive are working the system just stops. I get no messages on the monitor and I've let the system sit for and hour with no response. I've tried using the safe install, text install APIC install, you name it, the same thing always happens. Now windows XP professional and Windows ME are both working fine on the system. My PC is an alienware system made up of : ASUS A7N266-C motherboard Athlon XP 2200 GHZ CPU 512 RAM 120 GB IDE harddrive Samsung DVD player and also a Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus MPEG Decoder card NVIdea GeForce3 Ti 500 video card (64MB) Creative Audigy sound card There is also a LS-100 drive (superdisk) and a standard floppy disk I have an Iomega USB predator CDR burner I also have a USB hub connected to a web camera I've tried disconnecting the USB devices and doing the install but no luck. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Brad Akron, OH
Hi, from the SuSE support data base you get this article: [...] Title: Linux and Windows XP http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/dstark_linux_xp.html _______________________________________________________ Applies to SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.0 Situation You want to run Linux and Windows XP on the same computer. Procedure Linux on a separate hard disk You can simply install Linux on the free hard disk and configure the bootloader. Linux on the same hard disk as Windows First of all you must make room for Linux. Computers with preinstalled Windows XP usually employ the NTFS file system Version 2. Unfortunately, there is no documentation available about this file system at the moment, so currently Linux cannot read or write in NTFS. Resizing the partition with YaST2's Windows resizer is not possible. You may use either a commercial partitioning program or reformat the disk, after which you can install SuSE Linux and subsequently Windows XP. Please note that computers with preinstalled XP may have a separate partition containing recovery data. This partition must not be deleted in any case! * First create a primary FAT32 partition for Windows. This can be done with SuSE's installation program. Leave the rest of the disk free. If you also use an extended partition, it should occupy the remaining disk space. Please notice that some laptops require a special partition that must not be deleted. * Install SuSE Linux behind the primary partition and copy the bootloader LILO to a floppy disk. * Install Windows XP on the primary partition. * For more information on the further configuration of the bootloader check the article Linux and Windows NT [...] Hope that helps a little Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit
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Brad Moss
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