Hi, I received a new Compaq Evo N1020v laptop from work before easter. It has Windows XP pre-installed on it. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partition for SuSE 8.1 and install it for dual-booting with Windows XP without re-installing XP? Regards, Jostein
Jostein Berntsen wrote:
Hi,
I received a new Compaq Evo N1020v laptop from work before easter. It has Windows XP pre-installed on it. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partition for SuSE 8.1 and install it for dual-booting with Windows XP without re-installing XP?
Regards,
Jostein
It is possible, all you need to do is first use some tool to resize the existing partitions.. it is easiest to do with partition-magic, which sadly costs quite alot... but is fairly safe tool to that task.. Then suse installer can use the unpartitioned space on your hardrive for installing linux. LAter you then can easily remove WIN partitions if needed.. Suse installer also does nice job on creating menu where to select which OS to boot. P_S
On Tuesday 22 April 2003 07:29 pm, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
Hi,
I received a new Compaq Evo N1020v laptop from work before easter. It has Windows XP pre-installed on it. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partition for SuSE 8.1 and install it for dual-booting with Windows XP without re-installing XP?
Regards,
Jostein
I used PartitionMagic to partition my Laptop's drive ( I am still on Suse 8.0) and I didn't have to reinstall XP at all.... --- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER This message and any attachments are solely intended for the addressee(s). It may also be Sapura Group's confidential, privileged and/or subject to copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, retransmission or dissemination of this information or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete it from your computer. Take note that any privilege or confidentiality attached to this message is not waived, lost or destroyed due this disclosure. Whilst all care has been taken, Sapura's management disclaims all liability for loss or damage to person or property arising from this message being infected by computer virus or other contamination.
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From: "Jostein Berntsen"
Hi,
I received a new Compaq Evo N1020v laptop from work before easter. It has Windows XP pre-installed on it. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partition for SuSE 8.1 and install it for dual-booting with Windows XP without re-installing XP?
Regards,
Jostein <snip>
I don't think there are any free NTFS partition management tools apart from commercial ones, which can be expensive. The other tools are Linux based which is not much good. Should you already have a partition tool then use that. Failing that, the following procedure might be of assistance. Delete all the partitions on the laptop. Using free partition managers like Ranish, divide the drive into two patitions. The Compaq probable comes with a recovery CD rather than Windows XP install disk. Boot with the recovery CD which should put XP on the C: drive. Reinstall any other software. When booted with SuSE disk, it should find the empty partition and install itself there. However, if the PC has specifically been setup by your office's IT department, this might not be possible. LW999
I received a new Compaq Evo N1020v laptop from work before easter. It has Windows XP pre-installed on it. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partition for SuSE 8.1 and install it for dual-booting with Windows XP without re-installing XP?
I don't think there are any free NTFS partition management tools apart from commercial ones, which can be expensive. The other tools are Linux based which is not much good. Should you already have a partition tool then use that.
Good day, http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ See the program 'ntfsresize' Best regards :o) Johnny :o)
On Tue April 22 2003 9:48 am, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
I received a new Compaq Evo N1020v laptop from work before easter. It has Windows XP pre-installed on it. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a partition for SuSE 8.1 and install it for dual-booting with Windows XP without re-installing XP?
I don't think there are any free NTFS partition management tools apart from commercial ones, which can be expensive. The other tools are Linux based which is not much good. Should you already have a partition tool then use that.
Good day,
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
See the program 'ntfsresize'
Best regards :o)
Johnny :o)
Check out SuSE 8.2 -> ntfsprogs version 1.7.1.-11 contains ntfsresize plus a little disclaimer that it isn't stable yet and may lead to data loss... do your backups and verify your restores before using... Don't know if this is available while installing SuSE 8.2... onto XP. Stan
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