Win XP + SuSE 9.1 - can i do this without causing any major problems..
hi, http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/..._booting91.html i read about the bug that can cause some problems with win xp can i do this ? using a old knoppix version (kernel 2.4) 1. partition manually using fdisk 2. format the partition as riserfs/ext3 3. tell suse installer to install without formating to the above partition (thereby avoiding using the parted tool) 4. install GRUB to MBR is this safe ? i just want to be sure before proceding... thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Snake Eyes wrote:
hi,
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/..._booting91.html
i read about the bug that can cause some problems with win xp
can i do this ?
using a old knoppix version (kernel 2.4)
1. partition manually using fdisk 2. format the partition as riserfs/ext3
knoppix can do this, also timos-rescuecd.
3. tell suse installer to install without formating to the above partition (thereby avoiding using the parted tool)
That's an install decision, used it yesterday on a colleague's machine.
4. install GRUB to MBR
It normally does that. The problem I met and have not yet fixed, on my daughter's machine I have SuSE on /dev/hda and Windows 98SE on /dev/hdc, though Windows is in the menu, it boots Linux even when Windows is selected, tried mapping in grub with no change. There is some issue with Windows not being on the first partition of hda. I may next try using the Windows drive as hda, altering /etc/fstab to use /dev/hdc, using rdev to zap vmlinuz to set root to /dev/hda1.
is this safe ?
We've done quite a few installs that way with Windows installed on the first partition of hda, it works. Yesterday we installed SuSE on a colleages machine that had 98SE, Mandrake 10.0 and RedHat 9 installed. He was using bootmanager which didn't recognise reiserfs, so we had to reinstall as ext3. In order to use bootmanager to boot Linux (oops, we forgot to save MBR and had to fire up the bootmanager rescue disk which restored it to before SuSE install). We had to install grub in the partition, for SuSE it was /dev/hda3, he said he also had to do that for the other Linux distros. From bootmanager, 98SE, Mandrake, RedHat and SuSE all work.
i just want to be sure before proceding...
thanks
Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====
Sid Boyce wrote:
Snake Eyes wrote:
hi,
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/..._booting91.html
i read about the bug that can cause some problems with win xp
can i do this ?
using a old knoppix version (kernel 2.4)
1. partition manually using fdisk 2. format the partition as riserfs/ext3
knoppix can do this, also timos-rescuecd.
3. tell suse installer to install without formating to the above partition (thereby avoiding using the parted tool)
That's an install decision, used it yesterday on a colleague's machine.
4. install GRUB to MBR
It normally does that. The problem I met and have not yet fixed, on my daughter's machine I have SuSE on /dev/hda and Windows 98SE on /dev/hdc, though Windows is in the menu, it boots Linux even when Windows is selected, tried mapping in grub with no change. There is some issue with Windows not being on the first partition of hda. I may next try using the Windows drive as hda, altering /etc/fstab to use /dev/hdc, using rdev to zap vmlinuz to set root to /dev/hda1.
is this safe ?
We've done quite a few installs that way with Windows installed on the first partition of hda, it works. Yesterday we installed SuSE on a colleages machine that had 98SE, Mandrake 10.0 and RedHat 9 installed. He was using bootmanager which didn't recognise reiserfs, so we had to reinstall as ext3. In order to use bootmanager to boot Linux (oops, we forgot to save MBR and had to fire up the bootmanager rescue disk which restored it to before SuSE install). We had to install grub in the partition, for SuSE it was /dev/hda3, he said he also had to do that for the other Linux distros. From bootmanager, 98SE, Mandrake, RedHat and SuSE all work.
For bootmanager above, read bootmagic. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 01:52, Snake Eyes wrote:
hi,
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/..._booting91.html
i read about the bug that can cause some problems with win xp
can i do this ?
using a old knoppix version (kernel 2.4)
1. partition manually using fdisk 2. format the partition as riserfs/ext3 3. tell suse installer to install without formating to the above partition (thereby avoiding using the parted tool) 4. install GRUB to MBR
is this safe ?
i just want to be sure before proceding...
The bug centres around the HD definition i the BIOS, it needs to be set for LBA and not auto in order for GNU-Parted to not trash XP. I bought a copy of Partition Magic 8.0. booted the CD after defragging the HD with Speed Disk and defrag (speed then file position on the drive). I resized the NTFS partition and spec out both Swap and EXT3 partitions. Booted with the install CD and choose to format with resierfs and installed. XP was fine. Mike
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