[opensuse] Dual boot vista/opensuse 10.2
Hello, I have just purchased a brand new HP laptop which comes with vista preinstalled. Of course the first thing Id like to do is install 10.2. Some googling, however taught me that there have been some problems with getting a dual boot setup to work without nuking your partition table/bootsector/vista install. I wanted to ask for any experiences others may have had on a vista machine. Especially concerning partitioning, will yast correctly resize the vista partition (I understand NTFS has changed) or should I use some other tool first? Any tips/experiences appreciated. Cheers Dirk -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dirk Gorissen wrote:
Hello,
I have just purchased a brand new HP laptop which comes with vista preinstalled. Of course the first thing Id like to do is install 10.2. Some googling, however taught me that there have been some problems with getting a dual boot setup to work without nuking your partition table/bootsector/vista install. I wanted to ask for any experiences others may have had on a vista machine. Especially concerning partitioning, will yast correctly resize the vista partition (I understand NTFS has changed) or should I use some other tool first? Any tips/experiences appreciated.
First thing you want to do is obtain or create a recovery disk, so that if you trash your system you can recover. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:13, Dirk Gorissen wrote:
Any tips/experiences appreciated. Hi Dirk,
... did HP supply that system with a "recovery partition"... in other words, is HP shipping that machine with a bootable option to restore the entire system to "ship" defaults by installing from the recovery partition? If so, there is a technique (I have used it several times with HP machines) for repartitioning the drive, installing Suse, and then "recovering" the original from the recovery partition. Now for the caveat... I have only done this several times with XP... M$ may have different rules (behaviors) for the vista preloads. On the other hand (and a positive note) HP is probably trying to maintain some consistency with their product line and the HP vista preloads probably work just like the XP preloads did. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007/01/31 14:33 (GMT-0600) M Harris apparently typed:
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:13, Dirk Gorissen wrote:
Any tips/experiences appreciated.
... did HP supply that system with a "recovery partition"... in other words, is HP shipping that machine with a bootable option to restore the entire system to "ship" defaults by installing from the recovery partition? If so, there is a technique (I have used it several times with HP machines) for repartitioning the drive, installing Suse, and then "recovering" the original from the recovery partition. Now for the caveat... I have only done this several times with XP... M$ may have different rules (behaviors) for the vista preloads. On the other hand (and a positive note) HP is probably trying to maintain some consistency with their product line and the HP vista preloads probably work just like the XP preloads did.
Maybe this works the same for Vista: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122487-page,1/article.html?findid=51120 -- "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dirk Gorissen wrote:
Hello,
I have just purchased a brand new HP laptop which comes with vista preinstalled. Of course the first thing Id like to do is install 10.2. Some googling, however taught me that there have been some problems with getting a dual boot setup to work without nuking your partition table/bootsector/vista install. I wanted to ask for any experiences others may have had on a vista machine. Especially concerning partitioning, will yast correctly resize the vista partition (I understand NTFS has changed) or should I use some other tool first? Any tips/experiences appreciated. Hope you got a refund/discount for the supplier giving you a machine with an OS on it that you don't want.
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Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
Dirk Gorissen wrote:
Hello,
I have just purchased a brand new HP laptop which comes with vista preinstalled. Of course the first thing Id like to do is install 10.2. Some googling, however taught me that there have been some problems with getting a dual boot setup to work without nuking your partition table/bootsector/vista install. I wanted to ask for any experiences others may have had on a vista machine. Especially concerning partitioning, will yast correctly resize the vista partition (I understand NTFS has changed) or should I use some other tool first? Any tips/experiences appreciated. Hope you got a refund/discount for the supplier giving you a machine with an OS on it that you don't want.
The OP might want to read http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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